get back to the initial point is going to require some input from outside, like heat or extra work or extra heat or something because you've done an irreversible process.

如果要逆转它,回到初始点，就需要外界的投入，比如额外的功，额外的热量等等,因为你进行了一个不可逆过程。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

How do I know that that's an absolute pass, though? Well, when we set the exams, we set the tests, I sit with my TA's and we say, all right, let's work out the point scheme on this question.

我怎么知道会是绝对的通过呢，我们制定考试，我们制定测试题，我和助教坐在一起，我们说，好吧，让我们一起来设定这道题的分值。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

What's the point of all of this study, all of this work, ?" all of this self-denial if I could just wind up" ? - this is a good question -- if I could just wind up dead tomorrow?

要是我就要死了，这所有的学习，努力，自我克制还都有什么意义“,-这是个好问题--要是我明天就死了呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

self y Notice what I also do here, I create self dot y, give it a value, and then, oh cool, I can also set up what's the radius and angle for this point, by just doing a little bit of work.

我创建了，然后给它赋值，然后，噢太酷了，通过做一点额外的工作,就可以得到点的半径和角度了，好，实际上如果。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I would be grateful if you would wait until that point if at all you possibly can. It just makes the whole thing work a little easier and it prevents that drop in the pit of my stomach when I see half of the class leave.

我将感激不尽,这样会好一点,以免我看到半数人走掉时,心情会受到影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But the important part here is that the work is not zero. You're starting at one point.

从任意一点出发,完成一个循环。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

So, we do this here for the photoelectric effect, and in terms of the photoelectric effect, what we know the important point is that the incoming photon has to be equal or greater in energy then the work function of the metal.

所以，我们做这个是为了说明，光电效应，在光电效应方面，我们知道的最重要的事情,就是入射的光子能量必须等于,或者大于金属的功函数。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

This is a point that is often lost in the Republic, that it is first of all a work on the reform of the soul.

这是在《理想国》中常被落掉的观点，即改革灵魂,为首要之事。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

There are more people who can work to increase the production, but beyond that point there are more people to feed than the production can produce, and that leads to a desire for expansion of the land available for cultivation.

越来越多的人从事工作,生产力得以提高,但是一旦突破临界值,花费就要超过所得了,它导致了对土地扩张的需求

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It's not meant to be more than five, ten minutes of work, but the point of the question, -15, 20 minutes of work, but the point of the question is to motivate people to keep up with the material and do the readings.

几分钟就能完成,这个作业的目的,要十几到二十分钟完成吧,这个作业的目的在于激励大家,跟上课程的进度并去阅读材料

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Unsurprisingly, you've got the ability to do decent work in this class and most of you have the ability to do good work, and some of you have, a fair chunk of you have, the ability to do excellent work, though it may take some work on your part to get to that point.

不奇怪，你已经有能力去做极好的作业,并且大多人有能力做好作业，一些人有，是大部分人有，有能力去做极好的作业，尽管这需要花费一些功夫才能做到。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Yes. The point is, it's not going to work, and she caught both of them, impressive, it's not going to work because iters left is already negative, it's just going to skip the whole loop, and I'm in trouble, so thank you for catching that.

是的，重点是，程序不会运行的，她发现了两个错误，很令人敬佩，程序不会运行,因为iters，left已经是负数了，它会跳过整个循环，然后就有麻烦了，谢谢你提出这个问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选