The reason it looks like a tautology, because you look around, nothing seems to have its velocity forever.

其原因听起来像是绕圈子,因为你看看四周,似乎一切都不可能永远运动下去

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

One reason is dualism has always had its problems.

原因之一即二元论总是有自身的局限性

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Another upheaval within Christianity arising from its focus on individual salvation, its inheritance of a tradition of penetrating reason, applied even to matters of faith and to the continuing struggle between church and state.

这是基督教内部的另一次大变革,它所注重的是自我拯救,它对于深刻理性传统的继承,不仅在信仰中得以体现,也在政教斗争中表现的淋漓尽致

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

We'll see more about that in a minute, in part because of its overwhelming religious influence and that's one reason, besides the quest for a port on the sea, why he builds St. Petersburg.

稍后,我们会再次谈到这一点,他之所以建造圣彼得堡,除了要建立一个出海口这个原因,还因为莫斯科的宗教势力根深蒂固

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Immanuel Kant described very well the problem with skepticism when he wrote "Skepticism is a resting place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings, but it is no dwelling place for permanent settlement."

康德曾很贴切地描述了怀疑论的不足,他写道，怀疑论是人类理性暂时休憩的场所，是理性自省，以伺将来做出正确抉择的地方，但绝非理性的永久定居地“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And concomitantly a second reason is that that Civil Rights revolution also brought, through its process, a huge discovery at the same time of Northern racism, when Martin Luther King brought the movement to Chicago and nearly got killed doing it.

还有第二个理由就是,民权运动的经过也带来了一个大发现,那就是北方的种族主义,当马丁路德金把运动带到了芝加哥,他差点因此丧命

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

If you've ever noticed, Mac OS has its Apple menu on the top left and Windows has its start menu in the bottom left, really for no compelling reason.

如果你注意到，你会发现，Mac操作系统,在其左上角是Apple菜单，Windows却把它的开始菜单,放在左下角，毫无理由可言。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So when we write that out, we just write sigma 1 s squared, or we can break it up into its individual parts, there's no reason we can't do that as well.

当我们把这个写出来时，我们写sigma1s的平方，或者我们可以把它拆分成每个部分，我们没有理由不能这么做。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Francis Bacon, influenced by Machiavelli, urged human beings to employ their reason to force nature to give up its secrets, to treat nature like a woman, to master nature in order to improve man's material well being.

弗朗西斯·培根受到马基雅弗利的影响,提倡人们运用理性,来让自然原形毕露,像对待女人那样对待自然,去征服自然以提升人类的物质生活

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选