In that case, we understand it as a sequence of cross-sections rather than something that somehow organically changes through time.

这样，我们就是在学习一个个语言的横截面,而不是语言自然的变化过程。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So it might be something like that, a tiny little something that one would set down like a couple of elements.

所以创作的支点可能是类似这些的，很小很小的事情，作者会把它们列出来,就像一系列元素一样。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

A supplement, he points out, is something that either completes something that isn't complete or adds to something that already is complete.

他指出，一个补充物，或者是补充了不完整的事物,或者补充了已经完整的事物。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The problem is, I want to know if, in fact, I've got something that's not of the form I expect.

问题是,我希望知道如果输入的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Yeats counterposes Isaiah's prophetic coal to the blazing body of Section IV, where fire is spontaneous, imminent, something that arises from the body.

叶芝将比赛亚的预言性的煤,和第五节里燃烧的身体相对照，这里火是自燃的，迫在眉睫的，是从人身体里升出的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

This is something that you're going to prove in statistical mechanics, and so we're not going to worry about where this comes from.

我们会在统计力学中,证明这一结论，现在不需要去,操心这一结论的由来。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Jacob is married to two sisters simultaneously. That is something that is explicitly forbidden in the book of Deuteronomy.

雅各同时和一对姐妹结婚，这一点是,《申命记》中所明令禁止的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He is getting us out of that Aristotelian rut and moving us back to something that makes more sense.

他将我们从亚里士多德的规律,并将我们带回到,更有道理的规律。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So I think that it's more like how you spend your time doing stuff to have an answer than like something that I've learned specifically from college.

这事的关键就在于,如何支配时间,而不在于习得的具体技能。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

And something that we'll see later on is that triple bonds, for example, are going to be stronger than a corresponding double bond or a corresponding single bond.

而我们以后还会看到三键，举例来说，应该更强，相较于相应的双键,或者相应的单键来说。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So, that meant the concept that there is something that all of us are--have in common, that make us all Hellenes now exists.

所以,这意味着这样的概念,即我们之间是有共性的,这些共性让我们希腊人成为现在的样子

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So that's something there're physicalist can say and for that matter, there is something that a soul--somebody believes in souls could say as well.

物理主义学者可以这么认为,甚至相信灵魂论的,那些人,也可以这么认为。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So first, you might say, well food is something that's found in nature, that humans have evolved to eat foods that are found in nature.

首先,你可能会说,食品是发现于自然界的东西,然后人类进化以适应食用这些自然之物

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Designing something that works in a particular individual, and designing something that can be used in people all over the world, involve different sorts of accomplishments.

设计在特定个体身上生效的东西,和设计可以在全世界人民身上生效的东西,是完全不同的成果

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

I did something that's allowed, but something stupid.

我做了件允许做的事情，但是是愚蠢的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The point is that this cliched suburban life of mowing the lawn, Humbert is a foreigner--into something you can laugh at, something you can enjoy, something that you can apply the knight's move to.

这段话的意思是乡下人民这种修剪草坪，亨伯特是个外国人），变成了一种你感到开心,你很享受，你可以用迂回前进理论理解的事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选