And the reason I was was that I was interested in how the modern world came into being and it came into being I think in the late 16th century in some sense.

这是因为我对,现代世界的形成很感兴趣，而我认为,从某种意义上它是在十七世纪末期形成的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

There are factions that grow up for one reason or another and they come into conflict.

政治派系相继出现,他们之间有很多利益冲突

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Skinner came a bit late into this but the reason why we've heard of Skinner and why Skinner is so well known is he packaged these notions.

斯金纳算是这一学派中的晚辈了,但是何斯金纳能够被我们所熟知,能够声名远播的原因就在于,他将这些观点进行了一番整理。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Infinity is the force when we're thinking about it and our brains, negative infinity is when we actually plug it into the equation here, and the reason is the convention that the negative sign is just telling us the direction that the force is coming together instead of pushing apart.

说力有多大时，我们想到的,是无穷大，而方程解出来的,是负无穷，这是因为习惯上,我们用负号表示力的方向,是相互吸引而不是相互排斥的,所以我们可以用库仑定律。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And it's called divide and conquer for the obvious reason. I'm going to divide it up into sub-problems with the hope that those sub-problems get easier. It's going to be easier to conquer if you like, and then I'm going to merge them back. Now, in the binary search case, in some sense, this is a little bit trivial.

因此被称为分治的原因就这么简单,将一个问题分解成一些子问题,并希望这些子问题解决起来比较方便,正如你希望的，求解的过程也会变得简单,下面就是把结果合并起来,现在，在二分搜索的例子里,从某些方面来说，这有点微不足道。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The reason that countries dropped the gold standard was that under the effort to keep the currency convertible into gold they were worsening the depression of the 1930s.

这些国家放弃金本位制度,的原因在于，伴随着保持,货币与金子的转换功能,三十年代的大萧条正在被加深。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The other is I take a mortgage, I buy a house, I pay it off, I go into a heavy indebtedness but with a good rational reason and it all works out in the end.

另一种情况是，我分期贷款买了一套房子，我还清了贷款，却债台高筑,这样，于情于理都能说通,而且，最终无事一身轻。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Well I was thinking it's the same reason on 9/11 with regard to the people who flew the plane into the Pennsylvania field as heroes because they chose to kill the people on the plane and not kill more people in big buildings.

我认为这和9·11的时候是一种情况1,那些让飞机在宾州坠毁的人，被视为英雄,因为他们选择了牺牲自己,而不是让飞机撞向大楼牺牲更多人。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Because it's a gel electricity is going to move through the gel because there are ions in it the same way - for the same reason you don't drop an electrical device into the bathtub because charge moves through water that has ions in it.

由于凝胶中存在离子,电流会通过凝胶,同样--,因为同样的原因你不会把电器扔进浴缸里,因为水里也有离子,所以水可以导电

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Even if I was that guy in the X-Men or the Matrix or whatever it was, who could reason his way into making people do things.

就算我是X-Men或者尼奥,我能影响到别人的推理

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Reason permits a continuing rational inquiry into the nature of reality.

推理能够对现实的本质,进行持续合理的探究

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And the reason that quantum mechanics is going to work where classical mechanics fails is that classical mechanics did not take into account the fact that matter has both wave-like and particle-like properties, and light has both wave-like and particle-like properties.

上发生的行为,量子力学得以成功,而经典力学却失败的原因,是因为经典力学,不能包容物质的，波动性和粒子性,和光的波动性和粒子性。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Well, the way we can reason things out from the evidence we have suggests that Greek-speaking peoples came down into the area around the Aegean Sea, perhaps around 2000 B.C., about a thousand years later than the emergence of the Minoan civilization at Crete.

根据现在我们掌握的资料推断,讲希腊语的人群主要集中在爱琴海附近,大概在公元前两千年左右,在米诺斯文明出现在克里特岛大概一千年后

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So when we write that out, we just write sigma 1 s squared, or we can break it up into its individual parts, there's no reason we can't do that as well.

当我们把这个写出来时，我们写sigma1s的平方，或者我们可以把它拆分成每个部分，我们没有理由不能这么做。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选