I knew from the relatively limited set of course offerings that my school had the things I felt I was good at and so I went off on the path.

从相对有限的课程设置里我得知,学校里有我擅长的科目,所以我走上了这条道路。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And then for a lot of students too, what this mechanism does is it just takes the edge off a course like this.

对于大多数学生来说，这种机制同时也会削弱,此类课程的作用。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Of course, to turn the on-off switch on is harder when somebody's in a coma.

当然要开启这个开关难度更大,当人陷入昏迷。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So poor Lily is also an orphan, at least in the emotional sense, if not in actual reality. Her father, of course, had run off from her mother right after she had gotten pregnant, and then I suppose he came back.

可怜的莉莉也是个孤儿，至少从感情的角度上看是,如果你认为在现实情况不是，她的父亲，当然，在她母亲怀孕后,就开溜了，然后我猜测他又回来了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We don't, of course, have any original copies of these materials as they came off the pen of whoever it was who was writing them, and in fact before the middle of the twentieth century, our oldest manuscripts and fragments of manuscripts of the Bible dated to the year 900.

我们当然没有任何最早时期那些笔者的,手稿，而且事实上,在20世纪中期之前我们有的最古老的手稿,和手稿碎片都是公元900年时候的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

we start high and go low, we're dealing with emission where we have excess energy that the electron's giving off, and that energy is going to be equal the energy of the photon that is released and, of course, through our equations we know how to get from energy to frequency or to wavelength of the photon.

当我们从高到低时，我们说的,是发射,电子有多余的能量给出，这个能量等于，发出,光子的能量，当然我们可以通过方程,从能量知道，光子的频率，和波长。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And that in my mind is one of the upsides of taking a course like this, pass fail, in order to take the edge off.

在我心中,考查课是对这门课程的一大提升，这个课程是按照。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Well partly this is just for fun-- this is what computer people sometimes do, intentionally or unintentionally but as also will see a really nice way to culminate the semester and frankly carve out a 10 hour block where you can bite off your final project's implementation surrounded by friends and the course's staff.

一部分只是因为好玩-,这是懂电脑的人有时会这么做，不管有没有意义,还有一部分原因是因为,以这种方式达到学期的高潮,并在朋友和这门课程教师的关注下,抽出10小时的时间完成最终的项目安装,是一件多么美妙的事啊。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So control of these international highways brought a great deal of wealth to the area, but the central location was a double-edged sword, because in times of peace it would bring prosperity, but, of course, in times of war the land was perpetually invaded as armies would crisscross the land going off to do battle with the great powers.

对这些国际要道的控制,给这个地区带来了大量的财富，但这处于中心的地理位置也如同一把双刃剑，因为在和平时期它带来繁荣，但，在战乱时期，这块土地常常被侵略,当军队在此刀刃相交,或者经过与强国征战。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选