Do not think of a pink elephant for the next three seconds ? and I am sure no one thought of a pink elephant right?

在接下来的十秒钟里不要想粉色大象,我肯定没有人想一头粉色大象，是吗？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

That is, it doesn't take one second to go the first, and then two seconds to go to the second, and three seconds to go to third.

就是说,不是第一秒到第一排,第二秒第二排,第三秒第三排这样

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Two seconds, three seconds, four seconds.

两秒钟,三秒钟,四秒钟

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

You then go to dinner, you come back and you realize that your roommate has now vested you by five seconds and three hours later you've inched ahead again ; so it's a wonderfully motivational tool; and speaks to just how addictive frankly this stuff was and that too for me.

然后你去吃饭,回来后意识到你的室友已经快你五秒钟,三小时后你再次小幅领先,所以这是一个奇妙的激励工具;,坦率地说这东西多么的诱人,对我来说也不例外。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Three seconds of white-hot inspiration?

灵光乍现,三秒钟一蹴而就吗

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

They really need a good three minutes and thirty seconds here.

他们得有一个表现出色的三分半

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Okay. I can't read it but two minutes and fifty seconds, two minutes--this one's only two minutes, three minutes and twenty seconds, that kind of thing.They're short, whereas Beethoven,as mentioned,is much longer.

好，我读不出但是它唱2分50秒，两分钟，这首歌只有两分钟，3分20秒，基本都是这么长，它们都很短，但是我们刚才说的贝多芬就要长的多。

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