Why do people become firemen, policemen, soldiers, freedom fighters, all activities that cannot be explained in terms of self-interest alone?

不可能只用拿工资的理由，就能完全解释为什么总有人愿意做,消防员，警察，军人和争取自由的斗士？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It is an understanding that cannot be achieved without a serious examination of the western experience.

如果不仔细研究西方历史的发展经历,是不可能有这种认知的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There're some things that cannot be computed.

总会有一些无法计算的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

iterature cannot merely be received as a definite unit of referential meaning that can be decoded without leaving a residue.

文学不能仅仅以一个确切的参考性意思的单位来理解,这种参考性意思的单位在破解时不会留下任何残余。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Now, of course, it could still be that in the real world the one thing cannot exist without the other.

还是可以说,在真实世界里,某物不能脱离于另一物而独立存在

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Because it challenged the whole class system, that people are born into a certain place and cannot-- and should not-- be moved.

因为它挑战了整个阶级体系，人生来就有阶级，不能-,也不应该被改变。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

I will be happy to admit that I read through this I probably cannot tell you what it did unless I really obsessed over these details.

我不得不承认，恐怕我读完后,也不能告诉你它都干了些什么,除非我完完全全被这些细节给迷住了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

These are things that must be taken in from the environment because your body cannot manufacture them and they promote specific chemical reactions in the body.

这些都是必须从外界摄取的物质,因为无法通过自身合成,它们能促进体内特定的化学反应

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

At one time in the book or at one point he maintains that a person cannot be made to accuse themselves without the assurance of pardon.

他在书中辩护道,除非一个人知道自己会被赦免而主动认罪,否则是不能轻易强逼他认罪的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It's perfectly inscrutable as far as I'm concerned. But I think I can say with absolute certainty that one of its possible significances cannot be that the unprofitable servant should have waited to make his investment.

这对我来说很神秘，但我可以说,我很确信,它可能的含义之一,不会是让那个无益的仆人去等。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Literature is many things, a many-splendored thing," you say to yourself, "and it simply cannot be confined or trapped within a definition of that kind."

文学可以是很多，很多奇妙的东西，它不会局限于,那种定义“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He also plainly shares with Gadamer the assumption, the supposition, that the construal of meaning cannot be altogether objective.

他同时也坦率地表示自己和葛达玛，有一样的设想，那就是意思的解读并不都是客观的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

If I can just have it there before me, that is a very difficult and derivative intellectual act, and it cannot be understood as primordial or primitive.

仅是面对着它，对于思维来说非常困难，并且这不能被理解为是原始的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

People who hold constrained vision of human nature, believe that human nature cannot be changed; it's immutable-- we have certain instincts, we have certain inclinations.

认为人性受约束的观点的人，相信人性无法改变;,它是永恒的，我们有一些本能，有一些欲望。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Harmony is indeed invisible in sense Number 1, you cannot see it with your eyes, but for all that, it can be destroyed.

和声用无形的第一种解读方式理解，确实是无形的，你看不见它，但是它可以毁灭。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Even if you're in a room or a battlefield where people are dying at the same time as you, to your left and your right, dying is not and cannot be something that is a joint undertaking.

即便你处在房间或者战场上,有人和你同时同地死亡，就在你的身边死亡，死亡也不是你们共同完成的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选