It has nothing whatsoever to do with the question of simply the size of Satan's shield, and we realize that we have to redraw the schema into which we fit this simile.

实际上这和撒旦屏障的大小,并无实际的关联，我们得重新规划屏障的大小,来适应这个比喻。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

How are decisions made? Does the king simply say, "Do it," And it gets done? Nothing like that.

如何做出决策呢,是国王一拍脑袋说,"就这么定了",是这样吗,绝对不是

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

That's the crucial thing: if they're not willing, the use of the sign doesn't work, which confirms the idea that nothing can be changed simply by individual agency in and of itself.

这很关键：,如果他们自己不愿意使用，符号就没有意义，这也就应证了我们的观点,没有人能单独改变一个群体符号的使用方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

All I'm doing here, nothing particularly exciting, I'm simply plugging this expression in for P and then I multiplied the whole thing out because it was all multiplied by q.

这些计算过程确实很枯燥,我只是把这个算式代入到P中,然后打开整理,因为每一项都乘以了q

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