So the pain you're suffering now is actually instrumentally valuable, useful as a means, even though it's intrinsically bad.

所以你现在忍受的痛苦,是有利用价值的，作为手段是有用的，尽管痛苦本身是坏的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

and sort of also useful as a skill... not just for my career but in general, so...

不仅是对我的职业，整体来看，它也是一项有用的技能，所以……

哥伦比亚的第一印象 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Of course, that's not the useful application for it, it's more of a proof of principle, but it does show you that you can put it in for studies in any organisms.

当然，这不是很有用的应用，这仅仅是一个原理上的证明，但它告诉你你可以把它,放到研究任何生物体中。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And it's actually critically important to get used to things because it's a useful adaptive mechanism to keep track on new events and objects.

而习惯化实际上也是至关重要的,因为这是一种非常有用的适应机制,可以让你注意到新鲜事物。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The "is it okay" question is very useful at making your speech a little less casual.

is it okay”问句可以用来让你的对话变得随意一点。

Is it okay 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And so what this gave us was a very, very useful general criterion for determining whether something happened spontaneously.

这个告诉我们的是一个,非常非常一般的判据,他能帮助我们判断一个过程是否自发进行。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But real useful things that let me have a deep appreciation for the side I wish I had done more.

但是真正有用的是让我有了正确的见解,这是我希望能够学到更多的。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

But let's just count in terms of the numbers I'm touching 'cause that'll be useful in just a moment.

我明确地数了所动过的,数字，等会儿这个,可能有用。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

We are talking about a society,therefore, the anthropologists have come up with, which I think is a useful distinction.

因此,我们所说的这个社会是一个...,人类学家已经提出了一种区分的方法,我认为很有用

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But the kind of exercise we did last time is a useful exercise for those of you who are Econ majors.

但是我们上节课做的练习,对经济学专业的同学是非常有用的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Sometimes a blunt cut is useful if you want to sort of grow a sticky end of your choice on it.

这时候钝切口很有用,尤其在你想获得选定的粘性末端的时候

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It's an example of a very common tool that's going to be really useful to us, not just for doing search, but for doing a whole range of problems. That is, in essence, the template the describes a log style algorithm.

不仅仅是做搜索,还可以解决一整类问题,本质上，这个模板就描述了,对数形的算法,我们一会再回来。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

In that way it would be useful to make a contrast between Aristotle and someone like Adam Smith the great author of The Wealth of Nations.

在这一方面，有用的对比将是,把亚里士多德,与像亚当？史密斯这样人物,放在天秤的两端。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Much like the opportunities in the word "plastic," I think it's useful to suggest that this sense of gapping a spark plug may have some relevance to our understanding of what goes on in this reading process.

就像说到“塑料“时的几种可能性“,值得一说的是，这种火花塞间隙的概念,可能与我们的阅读有关,它让我们了解到阅读过程到底是怎样的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

More than a third of people on Facebook have their cellphone up there and that's something that's useful for the application.

事实上，超过三成的Facebook用户,都公布了自己的手机号,所以这个应用程序对于我们来说,十分重要。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

A fearful alchemy that's a useful definition of slavery.

可怕的炼金术,那是奴隶制的一个有建设性的定义

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选