That's another invention of the 1600s, by the way-- the thermometer. And they learned that concept-- perfectly natural to us--temperature.

顺便说一下,温度计也是十七世纪的发明,那时候的人才刚刚开始理解温度的概念,虽然对我们来说这是个很自然的概念

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Well you know what a point is, it's got an x- and a y- coordinate, it's natural to think about those two things as belonging as a single entity.

把这两个坐标认为，是属于一个独立的实体，是理所当然的事情,因此实现这个目的的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It's pretty clear that there are lots of machines that it doesn't seem natural to ascribe beliefs or desires or goals or reasoning to.

很显然对于很多种机器来说,讨论它们的信仰,欲望,目标或论证,是一件很不自然的事

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Rule of law presupposes that there is a form of justice or right natural to us.

有种正义的形式或权利,对我们而言是自然的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The way these things work, when you are engaged in agriculture, it's natural to go first to that soil, to that patch of land which is known to be likely to produce the best land, the most fertile, the best product, the most fertile land there is.

这一方式是这样运作的,当你从事农业,你自然而然的会首先关注土壤因素,去找出已知土地中最为肥沃的那一块,土地越肥沃,产量越高,就越追求更为肥沃的土地

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Quite often, it's natural to pick x and y in a certain way, because starting a projectile near the Earth, it makes sense to pick the horizontal as x and vertical as y.

我们经常会很自然地选取 x 轴和 y 轴,因为如果在地表附近做抛物运动,我们通常以水平方向为 x 轴,竖直方向为 y 轴

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

We also, therefore, have no sense that God is imminent in nature or tied to natural substances or phenomena.

我们也不知道自然中神灵将要诞生,或者是与某些自然物质及自然现象有关。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And in fact, Skinner explicitly made the analogy from the natural selection of species to the natural selection of behavior.

实际上，斯金纳也确实明确地,对物种的自然选择,同行为的自然选择进行过类比。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And so it seemed a natural move for early Christian writers to use this existing pastoral form when they wanted to speak on subject of priests or ministers or affairs of the church.

于是用现存的田园诗来谈论,关于牧师或教堂事务的话题,成了早期基督派作家非常自然的转变。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's limited by the obligation on the part of the majority to respect and to enforce the fundamental natural rights of the citizens.

它受限于多数人有义务尊重,并维护公民的基本自然权利。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

For my perspective, even if you understand God to be the creator of the world, I don't think that means that God is causing a certain natural event to happen at certain time.

从我的角度来说，即使你明白,上帝是世界的创造者，但这并不意味着上帝,导致了某个自然界的现象在特定的时间发生。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

MP3 I used to make stuff like the natural language interface to play my MP3s.

我曾经为自己的,设计了一个自然语言界面。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

Estrogen is a natural signal for cells to grow.

雌激素是一类细胞生长信号

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

So things are not... I haven't given you the numbers for the middle but... So you can see that whoever it was who said, you're slightly better off, you score with slightly higher probabilities when you kick to your natural side is exactly right.

所以事情不像是……,我虽然没有给出中路的概率,但是,我们先不管这些数字到底是谁总结的,我们发现我们走运了,当你从自然方向攻门的时候,你进球的概率会稍微提高

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The writer is the first man to map it and to name the natural objects it contains. Those berries are edible. That speckled creature that bolted across my path might be tamed. That lake between those trees will be called Lake Opal or, more artistically, Dishwater Lake.

而作者本人则是第一个为它绘制地图并为每一个自然事物,命名的人，这种讲过是可以吃的，那只身上带斑点,从我身边窜过，的动物也许能被驯服，树木之间的那个湖泊,可以叫“蛋白石湖“，或者，更艺术的，“洗盘水湖“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In an era of computers with quite sophisticated computer programs, it seems, at the very least, natural to talk about beliefs, desires, and reasoning and strategizing.

在一个有着能搭载极端复杂程序的电脑的时代,最起码,谈论信仰,欲望,论证,谋划,是很自然的事

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选