My belief in books had risen more out of a sense of desperation than from my abiding conviction of their ultimate value.

我对书的信仰更多的是来自一种绝望,而非我对其本质的长期依赖，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Crime is not high. I come from Detroit where crime is a lot higher there than it is in New York.

犯罪率不高。我来自底特律，那里犯罪率比纽约高很多。

对纽约的印象 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

We need to get at the story of the Fall from the perspective of its beginning rather than from the perspective of its ending.

理解人类的堕落的故事，我们要从,它的源起而不是它的结果来看。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So from the point of view of the producers, this Cournot Equilibrium is worse than monopoly, but better than perfect competition.

从生产者的角度来看,古诺均衡劣于垄断,优于完全竞争

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

So I've removed the comments, the things that start with slash slash from the slides just so you have an opportunity engage more intellectually rather than just reading the answers off the screen.

我把注释去掉了，那些双斜杠,右边的文字,所以这样你你们可以做一些思考,而不是阅读屏幕上的答案。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Where all property is held in common it is more likely to suffer from common neglect than it is from common ownership.

当所有的财产都共有,较可能的状况是，城市会遭遇共同疏漏的,不良后果，而非享受共有权的好处。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Maybe they emerged from within, rather than being established by peoples immigrating from without.

也许他们是从内部崛起的，而不是由从外部迁徙而至的人建立。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Well, other than prejudice, what would stop us from saying the program was being creative?

那么,除了偏见,还有什么能阻止我们说程序具有创造力呢

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And much easier to purify and know what you have at the end, than if you're trying to harvest it from a whole complex organism.

最终产品的纯化和鉴定也比,从复杂的生物体上提取和鉴定容易

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And that right now we can no longer afford to incarcerate, see, more than two million people, and take them not only out of workforce, but keeping them away from information of knowledge of literacy.

现在，我们已没有能力,去限制两亿人口，让他们，脱离劳动力，让他们脱离信息,知识或文化素养。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

5 years from now I certainly hope to be happier than I am today.

5年后我当然希望自己能比今天幸福。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

As I say, red tends to be chosen, but then if you get lab experiments showing that that particular color of gas blue is somehow or another sort of more invasive of your consciousness than red is, then you move away from the arbitrariness of the choice of red as a color.

所以人们就倾向于选择红灯，但是如果你想用实验证明,比如说烟蓝色或者,其他任何另一种颜色比红色更加醒目，那么你就忽视了颜色选择上的任意性。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The idea is then that autistic individuals suffer from what he calls extreme male brains, and as such, it stands to reason that they'd be more sampled from the male population than the female population.

孤独症个体,患有伯龙所谓的极端男性大脑,该理论就解释了患者样本中,男性数量要多于女性数量的原因

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And as a reminder, hopefully I don't need to remind any of you, but exam 1 is on Wednesday, so rather than our clicker question being on something from last class, which is exam 2 material, let's just make sure everyone remembers some small topic from exam 1 material, which is the idea of angular nodes.

而作为一个提醒--我希望大家都不需要提醒，但是这周三就要进行第一次考试了，因此我们的这个选择题,不是关于上节课内容的，那是第二次考试的内容，这里只是想确认大家都记得,第一次考试所要求的一些小问题，也就是关于角向节点的概念。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And that's what he did. And for the point of view of France, they emerged from the war with the reality that they are in victory a weaker nation than Germany is in defeat.

他就是这么干的,从法国这边来看,他们在战后的现实中发现,他们作为一个战胜国,比德国一个战败国还要弱小

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Now, to be sure, in Siberia in the far reaches of the north, North Asia, this empire amounted to little more than a series of trading posts, and it took a very long time for any semblance of Russian authority from Moscow and soon from St. Petersburg, for reasons that we'll see, to reach there.

现在,可以肯定,当时的俄国,在西伯利亚和北亚并没有多少商栈,俄国耗费了很多时间,才使得其首都市容变成现在这样,无论是莫斯科,还是之后的圣彼得堡,原因我们会讲到

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选