Now, it's not my purpose here to try to argue for or against Platonism with regard to abstract entities.

我的目的不是,试图去辩护或者反对,柏拉图哲学中的抽象实体这个概念

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Ideally, life insurance is insuring people-- or fire insurance is insuring people-- against independent events, so it's not the fire of London.

理想状态下,人寿保险,或者是火灾险,承保的对象都是独立事件,伦敦大火的例子不在讨论范围

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It's an expansion, so we're doing work against the environment, or to the environment.

压强降低，系统对，外界做功。

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You can take or leave literary theory, fine, but the idea that there would be such an incredible outcry against it was one of the most fascinating results of it.

上这门课也可以退掉这门课，都行，但是这种难以置信的强烈抗议,是开这门课最迷人的结果之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I'm not--it's not my goal here to argue for or against these theological possibilities, having at least taken the time to explain philosophically how we could make sense of them.

我的目的不是想要争辩,这些神学上的可能，花时间来从哲学上解释,我们如何弄清这些道理。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And it increases the role of these economic elites or their concern with maintaining their privileges against threats to their privileges and to their prosperity no matter where they come from.

这在提高了经济精英的地位的同时,也使他们更担心如何保持他们的特权,以及如何对抗对他们特权和繁荣的威胁,无论威胁来自何方

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Or,in the 1980s,when there were huge demonstrations by people favoring the Catholic Church it was the same thing, with reacting against the kind of dictates or dictates coming down from Paris.

在1980年有一场大游行,为了支持天主教会,这些都是一样的,是为了反抗,来自巴黎的指示和规定

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

So you could have--be consuming fat that is in itself good for heart health let's say, or maybe protective against cancer in some ways, but it's also adding calories to the diet, so you want to have the optimal amount of fat and not over-consume it because of the calories.

所以你可能是在食用,有益于你心脏健康的脂肪,打个比方,又或是在某种程度上可以抗癌,但它也给你的饮食增加了热量,因此为了减少热量应该食用适量,而非过量的脂肪

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 we had the proper risk management institutions in place, people would have anticipated this risk and would have made swaps or other arrangements to protect themselves against it.

如果我们有合适的风险管理机构，人们能够预料到这种风险,能够提前进行交换或者其他安排,保护自己免受损失。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I would be looking at this--at the debt areas Student: You mentioned about the U.S. dollar falling in value recently. What kind of foreign currency vehicles or trading would you recommend to kind of hedge a bet against a dollar assuming that it continues to fall?

我会考虑这方面的投资--债务市场方面的机会,学生：你刚才提到美元,最近贬值的问题，那么哪些品种的外汇金融工具,或者外汇交易在你看来可以用来,对冲美元贬值的风险,如果我们假设美元还会将继续贬值？

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