So I think this question is very much related to your first one about how we mistake what success really means.

我觉得这个问题与,你的第一个问题紧密相连,就是“我们对于成功的错误理解“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

We need to know not only what are the primitives, but how do we make things meaningful in that language.

我们不仅需要知道什么是基本类型，还要知道我们在那种语言中,怎样使其变得有意义。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The idea behind all these algorithms is that what's ultimately important is how many comparisons you ultimately need to make.

这些算法的思想是,你最终需要做多少次的比较,这才是真正重要的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So, it's a trivial matter, by looking at what is the weight and how far does it drop, to say OK, how much work is done by the paddle wheel.

好，让我们看看重物的质量,以及它下落的距离，就知道桨轮做了多少功。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

And what you might have noted is although we described how to make predictions about these properties, I didn't talk too much about what it actually means, what the ramifications of these different properties are.

而大家可能已经注意到了我们描述了,如何对这些性质进行预言，但是我并没有讲这到底有什么意义，这些不同性质的分支是什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

There has been a long discussion about what people owe each other and how okay it is to try to make money.

曾经有一次很长的讨论,是关于自己欠别人多少,而自己应该赚多少才合适

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Third, I'd like to answer these questions from sound points of view and tell you a little bit about what we are doing and how we are doing it.

第三，我想对这些问题,给出合理的答案,并讲点我们,要做的事及完成的方式。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

You've got to think about that and what it means and how were they transmitted and preserved without ; the means of technology, obviously, that we have today; and what was so exciting in the middle of the twentieth century was the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.I'm sure that you've heard of them.

你们需要考虑到这点及这意味着什么,还有在没有当今我们所拥有的技术的年代,是如何传播和留传下来的;,在20世纪中期时最令人兴奋的就是发现了,死海古卷，我确定你们曾经听说过。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

We'll talk about what a calorie is and what it means and how it's measured.

我们还要讲什么是卡路里,其意义所在,以及评估方法

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

How do we assess what makes a life-- a good life versus a bad life?

我们如何评估是什么,让一种人生是好的或坏的人生？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It has to do exactly with how people say what they say.

这跟人们说话的具体方式有关。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

That also encouraged me to really write more and to really think about what is the story, how are people coming to this and like when I show my friends this, how are they going to react.

这也鼓励我编写更多东西,并且真正思考这个故事是什么，思考人们怎么想它,比如我向我的朋友展示的时候，他们会怎么反应。

斯坦福公开课 - Twitter之父Jack.Dorsey演讲：好奇和灵感的力量课程节选

So I'm really just interested in how filmmakers make films for what motive they have in common, why they make them and how they choose to present reality.

所以我对电影制作者们,在制作电影时有没有什么共同的动机,他们为什么要制作电影，如何用电影反映现实,等方面很感兴趣。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Buthere is the conventional aspect of property, it's a further question what counts as property, how it's defined and what counts as taking property, and that's up to the government.

但财产还有约定俗成的一面，就引出了更进一步的问题,什么才算财产，财产如何定义,且何种行为才算掠夺财产，这是由政府决定的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Huh? What do you think and how do we find out?

你认为我们该怎么去找呢

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

How does--what's the different-- ? why are people different in intelligence?

区别在哪-,为什么人与人之间智力会有差异？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选