Why is it necessary to rend something, to make it soul or whole? Is it necessary?

为什么要撕破某样东西，它才能完美呢，这有必要吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

You want to use "it is important to" to emphasize or to make note of something that you hold close.

你使用“it is important to”来强调或说明你认为很重要的事情。

It's important 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So it doesn't make sense to just use a number 'cause you wantthis character to collect something from here or here,or there.

仅仅使用一个数字到处去收集,是没有意义的，因为你想要这个东西,来收集这里的还有那儿的信息。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I find that every time we do our meditation on Thursday, I'm always running to make it, or something happened before I get there, I'm like "Oh my God, meditation!"

我发现每次我们周四,要冥想时，我总是匆匆赶过去，或者是到达之前发生一点事故，我就好像“天哪，要冥想！“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It's kind of--there must be something in cooking like that -use cornstarch or something, a filler -I don't know--just to make--give something body.

估计和烹饪的道理一样,用淀粉或某种填充物,我也不清楚,反正是进行塑形

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

But you need to be able to predict what kind of properties a certain atom's going to have within a molecule, whether you're talking about something, for example, that's very electronegative, or something that is not electronegative at all, it is going to make a difference in terms of thinking about how molecules are structured and also how they interact with other molecules.

但是你需要能够预言，什么性质,某个原子在分子中能够具有，无论你讨论的是哪一种情况，比如，它有很高的电负性，还是它根本没有电负性，都将会产生影响,对这个分子的结构,以及与其它分子相互作用的情况。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

That's something physicalist or dualist can say but and this is not of--to make a good promise they offered earlier, it's not the only view available to physicalists, or for that matter dualists.

物理主义学者或二元论者都可认同,这个观点，但如同他们之前提到的,这并不是物理主义学者眼中,唯一存在的理论，二元论者也是如此。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If it doesn't make sense, you'll-- If it doesn't make sense or, more to the point, if it's something that you do that's foolish or makes you look manipulative or cheap, you'll distort it in your head so that it does make sense.

如果你的行为不合理，你会…,如果你的行为不合理，或者更确切的地说，如果你的行为很愚蠢,或者让你显得很攻于心计，或很廉价，你就会捏造理由说服自己这是合理的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now to make that happen, it's not adiabatic, right. If I wanted to do that, I'd need a heating element or something to cool, so I could make that temperature change happen, right.

要实现这点，它就不会是绝热的，对吧，如果我想做到这点,我需要一个加热元件或什么制冷的东西,这样我才能让温度变化。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选