Why 5,040, you may ask;do we have any mathematicians among us who will give me a quick answer to that?

你会问为什么是五千零四十个呢,在座的有没有数学家能快速给出答案

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

That's the negative response to undecidability, and it's of course, a view that many of us may entertain.

那就是对不可判定性的一个消极的反应，当然，我们可以容纳这个观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The philosopher-king, he tells us, may be an object of hope or wish but Plato realizes that this possibility is not really to be expected.

他告诉我们，哲学家国王也许是希望或愿望的目标,但柏拉图了解到,这种可能性不是真的值得期待。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And there are a lot of interesting things that the food industry has trained us to believe that experts say may or may not be true.

有趣的是,是那些食品厂家让我们明白,专家说的也是有对有错的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Here are two stories not having to do with death per se that may help us get a feel for the oddity of trying to disregard these facts.

下面有两个和死亡本身无关的故事,可能会让我们感觉到,试图无视这些事实的奇怪之处。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The story of Adam and Eve and of the fall of Satan may strike us - having read or about to read Paradise Lost -- may strike us as a natural subject for Milton to have chosen for his epic poem.

弥尔顿选择了亚当夏娃以及撒旦的溃败的故事,作为他史诗的主题在我们看来--不管我们读过,还是将要读《失乐园》--都是很自然的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So musical notation: the first grid pattern in Western culture-- but it does lock us in in interesting ways that we may-- you perhaps have never considered-- compared to how music is made in other cultures.

因此音乐记谱法,是西方文化中最早的网格图示,但这也限制了我们以某种有趣的方式,你们也许从来没有想过的方式创作,相对其他文化中音乐创作的过程而言

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

I feel that as absolutely at the heart of the Muslim tradition 9 perhaps most beautifully articulated in Soura 49 that God made us in different nations and tribes so we may come to know one another.

我觉得这绝对是,穆斯林传统的核心所在,而这在Soura，49中有最美的表达9,上帝将我们创造为不同的民族和部落,因此我们可以逐渐了解彼此。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

If we had been thinking -- and some of us may well have been thinking and we were right to think provisionally -that Satan was a character that we could actually identify with, if we had been thinking that Satan was in any way a perfect character with some sort of justifiable claim -these thoughts are now being corrected by the means, by the mechanism, of the simile.

如果我们在思考--有些人已经在考虑这些问题,我们的确应该暂时想一想,-撒旦是一个的确可以，如果我们想过撒旦是,一个应当被公正对待的完美的角色的话,-这些想法目前已经得到了，这个机制和比喻的纠正。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选