So you may take this course ultimately via pass-fail or letter grade and I am more than happy to chat with you about the implications and to sign any paper work such as the stack here that you might need.

你可能希望这门课采用及格-不及格分制或者分数制,我很乐意跟你聊下,两个打分制各自的含义,也可以帮你在这里签到。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But I also take it that Tolstoy means to be putting forward more than just a claim that there could be such a person.

但我也认为托尔斯泰是认为真有其人,而不只是声称世界上有这样一种人。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I never met anybody who seemed more like an author than this person, and yet he's raising the question whether there is any such thing, or in any case, the question how difficult it is to decide what it is if there is.

我从来没有遇见过比他看起来更像作家的人，现在他提出了一个问题，问无论如何，如果有这么个东西的话那么决定它是什么有多难。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Is not any so-called list of great thinkers ? or great texts likely to be simply arbitrary and tell us more about what such a ! list excludes than what it includes?

这种所谓的伟大思想家,或巨著清单不会太过于武断吗,它告诉我们的应是,遗漏多于涵蕴吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The idea is then that autistic individuals suffer from what he calls extreme male brains, and as such, it stands to reason that they'd be more sampled from the male population than the female population.

孤独症个体,患有伯龙所谓的极端男性大脑,该理论就解释了患者样本中,男性数量要多于女性数量的原因

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Gram for gram it provides a lot more punch in terms of calories than protein or carbohydrate, and that could be why fat has such an appeal to human physiology and why people like high fat foods.

每克脂肪比蛋白质或碳水化合物,提供更多卡路里的热量,这是人类身体对脂肪如此渴求的原因,人们为什么如此喜欢高脂食物

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

If you're expecting to be attacked and besieged, as all these citadels would be by an invader, you would want more than anything else a water supply, but they didn't necessarily have good water supplies in such circumstances.

如果你预料到会被攻击和包围,就像这些城邦面对侵略者那样,你最关心的一定是水源供应,但在这样的情况下,他们未必能找到充足的水源

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选