The simile isn't telling us that Satan's spear is as small as a wand because what we have is a syllogism here.

这个比喻并不是在提醒我们撒旦的长矛像棍子一样小,因为我们在这儿有一个演绎推理。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's cosy, it's small, you can walk around the whole city, you'll be tired, but.

很舒服，城市很小，你可以全程走走，当然会累。

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The U.S. Government also issues small denomination debt to individuals to help them called savings bonds, but we aren't talking about those.

美国政府也发行小面值债券,用于面向个人,叫做长期储蓄债券,我们今天不涉及这些

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

All right. If the derivative is small, it's not changing, maybe want to take a larger step, but let's not worry about that all right?

好，如果导数很小的话，函数就基本没什么变化,可能我们就想把步子迈大一点儿了,但是别为这个担心？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

In the real world, no one's going to measure it instantaneously, but we can make the difference as small as we like.

在现实生活中,没人能一瞬间测出来,但我们可以使差值越来越小

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Then we read, or at least we think we read, that Satan's spear is small, and then we realize over the course of this reading process that Satan's spear is unimaginable, and we realize that our time-bound mode of knowing is ultimately inadequate to understand anything about the inscrutable truths of eternity: this is according to Fish.

然后又读到，至少我们认为读到，撒旦的长矛又很小，接着我们意识到了在阅读的过程中,撒旦的长矛实际上是不可想象的，并且我们被特定时代拘束的理解模式,是不足以理解任何,有关永恒的难以预测的真相的：,这是费什告诉我们的道理。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This is a baby elephant, so it's really, really big-- except it's a baby elephant, so it's really, really small."

这是只大象宝宝,所以它很大很大,但是它只是个大象宝宝,所以它其实又很小很小

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He said, "I'll pray for him but if he can punch it'll help." In a small respect, that's Machiavelli.

神父说，我将为他祈祷，但是如果他能出拳猛击,那将会很有帮助，小面上说，这就是马基雅维利。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And so now when I have the list here, let's see, yours is facing this way, so small is gonna be here large is gonna be here.

现在有了这个序列，你们是面向这边的，那小的放这边，大的放这边。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

This is in a pretty small it's bigger than Belgium, but this is a pretty small territory.

这是仍然是一个相当小的数字,只比比利时稍大一点,不过比利时的领土也是很小的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

If you wish to change sections, you may do so only with permission of the subject administrators because it's very important that those sections be kept at a small population.

如果你们想要改时间，你只能在课程管理主任允许,的情况下这样做,因为让课程的人数保持在比较少的水平,是很重要的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Well, one thing that a literary argument can do is take something small like this and try to give an account for it, so that's what I'm going to do.

好了，文学争论能对向这样小细节,进行描写说明，所以，我现在要做的是。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

That's--that accounts for relatively small number of the overall cases of Type I Diabetes.

型糖尿病患者,占患者总人数的比率相对较小

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Some small subsets do but most of the cells in your brain don't proliferate and that's because they get trapped at one portion of the cell cycle.

除了很小一部分以外大部分脑细胞不增殖,这是因为,它们停滞于细胞周期的某个阶段

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It's still undetectably small.

它仍然是无法察觉的小。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

I don't know if you've been to Bath. But it's very nice, but a bit boring and small.

我不知道你去过巴斯没有。那里非常漂亮，只是有一点无聊，而且那里很小。

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