I think I have sort of two things to go together that are very simple, that doesn't matter where you live.

我有两点要讲,他们都很简单,无论你住在哪里都可以。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

There's nothing profound about this, other than the understanding that the details of how you set these things up can matter a lot.

只是说我们要理解，一开始设定时候的值,会对结果有很大影响。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But real things matter, like if the company decides to build that new plant in Akron.

真正重要的事,比如公司决定在阿克伦城建个新工厂

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Close reading, the idea that you could take a text and do things with it--that the interpretation of a text wasn't just a matter of saying, "Oh, yes, it's about this and isn't it beautiful?"

当你拿到一篇文章之后,你所能做的不只是说些像,“哦，这是关于这个的，它读起来，是不是很美啊“之类的话“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

You could imagine the dualist coming back and saying, "Look, in the case of the heat-seeking missile or the robot for that matter, although it's doing things, it's just obeying orders.

你可以假想二元论反驳说,在热追踪导弹,或是机器人的例子里,尽管他们各尽其职,但也只是恪守命令

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The things that they taught us in school, when they required us to remember poetry, no matter how we try, we can't forget it, and the stuff that we had to remember that was in prose, no matter how we try we can't remember it.

我们在学校所学的知识,当以诗歌的形式进行记忆时,不论怎么尝试,我们都很难忘记,但是如果让我们背诵散文,不论怎么尝试,我们都很难记住

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Now, I wanted to go to through this just to go through one cycle quickly because we're going to be doing these all the time, and the importance of the fact that the path doesn't matter, and you can always connect things together in a way, whatever you want.

我使用这种,利用热力学循环的推导方法的原因在于,今后我们，将经常使用类似的方法,大家要记住路径是无关紧要的，可以随意选取一条路径,来连接两个态。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选