But when you asked them why they didn't try it the answers tended to be "I would look silly."

但当你问他们为什么不尝试时,他们的答案往往是“这样做会很傻”

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Think of anything else with the density goes down when it freezes, and think about where we would be if that wasn't the case.

想想有没有其他的物质,在降温时密度会变大，再想想如果不是这种情况,我们将会怎么样。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

One of the things that was interesting, when we were talking about the Sooka, was this idea that the Sooka should be weak enough and it would be destroyed if a big storm comes through.

有一件很有意思的事情，我们当时谈到了苏卡这个地方，意识到它其实很脆弱,很可能被即将到来的风暴摧毁。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Milton -- and we know this -- Milton was a political revolutionary, and when he anticipated writing the great poem, he consistently imagined that it would be a poem on a nationalist theme.

弥尔顿--我们知道--是个政治革命家，一直以来他所预想的这首伟大诗歌，的主题应该是民族主义的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

All right. So let's test what we, in fact, know about the photoelectric effect, and before we do that actually, we're going to calculate what we would predict, so when we do the demo it will be meaningful and we can tell whether we're successful or not.

好的，我们来测试一些，我们实际上懂了,多少光电效应的东西，在我们做测试之前，我们先算一下我们能预知什么，这样我们做的测试会很有意义,并且也知道我们是否成功了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

When you buy a house, you borrow the money and you pay it back in fixed-- it would usually be monthly, but let's say annual payments.

当你买了一座房子,你贷了些款,然后你在一定的时间内偿还一部分,一般来说都是按月来算的,但是假设我们是按年支付的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

When I do my best to imagine some kind of existence that would be desirable or attractive forever, it just doesn't work. It becomes a nightmare.

当我尽力想象一种,令人永远期望迷恋的存在时，根本想象不出，总是变成恶梦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In product placement, you might think when you're placing a gas station, you might think it would be nice if gas stations spread themselves evenly out over the town or out over the road.

在产品植入领域里,假设你在考虑设立一个加油站,你会想如果加油站,能均匀覆盖城镇每个角落,或者遍布整条公路那该多好

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

It used to be believed, and it's the sort of thing I would-- when I taught this course many years ago I would lecture on-- that neurons do not grow back once you lose them.

人们曾经相信,我在很多年前,教授这门课的时候,会告诉大家,一旦你的神经元受损,它们便无法恢复

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

You all could still do that if you decide too, but it's going to be harder for you than if you would have started when you were ten, so you're losing some potential around - along the way.

如果你想的话也许还可以,但会比起你从十岁开始努力,会更困难一些,因此你们在成长的路上失去了一些潜能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And here you see in the Odyssey is what it would likely be, and the place where you see it is back in Ithaca when Odysseus is there or when we're taken to see what's going on.

现在我们再看看《奥德赛》,你会看到,奥德修斯最终回到了,伊萨卡岛,他的故乡

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There was a famous case in the 1970s or '80s, there was a family called Trognon, and a trognon is a cigarette butt, and when they tried to adopt a baby, it would be called, let's say Jean-Philippe Trognon, they said,"oh,no, that baby would be damaged by having such a last name; you don't have the right to adopt this baby."

在上世纪七八十年代有一个出名的案例中,这家人姓特鲁侬,意思是香烟屁股,他们想要领养一个婴儿,取名为,简·菲利佩·特鲁侬,法国人说,不不,取这样一个名字有损于这个婴儿,你们不能领养这个孩子

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Would it be better to know when you were going to die?

你知道自己何时死亡会更好吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There are also survivorship policies that will pay, for example, the second to die-- there would be a policy if a husband and wife get it, then it pays out when the second of them dies.

还有一种叫做生死两全保险,它会向身故受益人赔付直至其死亡,若一对夫妻购买这种保单,且其中一方死亡,那么它会给活着的一方赔付直至其死亡

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The reason they call them coupons is that, in the old days, you used to actually--when you bought a bond, there would be a piece of paper and the piece of paper would have attached to it a lot of little coupons that you would clip.

这里被称作"票息"的原因是,在过去,当你买了债券的时候,会有一张纸,那张纸上附带了许多,你能剪下来的小纸票

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选