That is to say, it is subservient to the natural world; its importance is that it refers to that world.

也就是说，这些学科都是自然世界的奴仆;,它们存在的价值就是去解释那个自然世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But I think you have another 40% or 50% that gets its information through television, which is very bad.

但是我想还有另外的40%或50%的人通过电视获取信息，这很糟糕。

美国偶像 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The Washington Post surveyed its readership and discovered that ask people what they thought was the most significant causes of the shooting.

华盛顿邮报》在读者中进行了调查,并且发现当询问人们,他们认为,枪杀案发生的主要原因是什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

It's moments like these when that omniscient narrator lives up to its name, that sense of omniscience that we might associate with God.

在这种时候,万能的叙述者才不负其盛名，这种全能全知让我们联想到了上帝。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

What Frost gives you here and elsewhere is a poetry that leaves its meanings to make, all the time.

弗罗斯特在这儿留给你们的是一首,留下意味深长的语境的诗歌，需要不断地钻研。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The result-- or one or more arguments or parameters that result of which is-- that will influence its behavior.

可能是一个或多个参数,因为不同的参数会影响它的输出。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Gadamer says, and here again he's attacking historicism: The text that is understood historically is forced to abandon its claim that it is uttering something true.

伽达默尔在攻击历史相对主义时这样说道：,文本如果放在历史的角度理解,那么这样的理解肯定不是绝对正确的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

You might think that its function is to make you more - a better cyclist but that's not its only function.

你也许只知道它的作用是--,使你成为一个更好的自行车手,但这并不是它的唯一功能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Most scientists believe that its better, a better process, less affected by conflicts of interest, but still affected by politics.

大部分学者认为这是一个改进,不过虽然利益冲突的影响有所减少,却仍不免受到政治因素的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In Deuteronomy 32:10, the image is that of an eagle that bears its young on its wings: He found him in a desert region, In an empty howling waste.

在《申命记》第32章10节，出现在鹰的形象，两翼负着雏鹰：,耶和华遇见他在荒凉旷野，在野兽吼叫之地。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

There is nothing saying that that sodium, its positive charge has not been neutralized.

什么也没有，钠的正电荷没有被中和是。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

He went there and he made a plea that General Motors should cut its dividend that it pays to stockholders, which is a reasonable thing to do.

他向管理层提出请求,希望通用汽车公司减少,支付给股东们的红利,这是一种很合理的做法

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Those who profess to love the Union are not so anxious to preserve slavery, while those who are opposed to the war acknowledge in all their actions that its continuance will put an end to this accursed system.

那些宣称热爱联邦的人,并不急着想保存奴隶制,同时那些反战的人,他们以行动昭告天下,战争会持续到这种被人唾骂的制度结束

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

In the famous battle of Marathon, which I will tell you about when we get there, one of its features is that because the Greeks were numerically badly inferior to the Persians, they had this problem of covering the line.

比如在著名的马拉松战役,迟些我们会讲到,马拉松战役中,希腊军队,在人数上远不敌波斯军队,这为布阵造成很大的困难

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And so he concluded, "I knew that I was a substance, the whole essence or nature of which is to think, and that for its existence, there is no need of any place nor does it depend on any material thing.

因此,他总结到,"我知道我是个实体,是思考主体的本质或本性,而这种思考主体的存在,无需任何空间,也不依赖于任何有形实体

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It's perfectly inscrutable as far as I'm concerned. But I think I can say with absolute certainty that one of its possible significances cannot be that the unprofitable servant should have waited to make his investment.

这对我来说很神秘，但我可以说,我很确信,它可能的含义之一,不会是让那个无益的仆人去等。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选