She could stand for hours making her way little by little toward the desired object that was selling below cost.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

But the purposiveness of the object is the way in which it is sufficient unto itself.

而“合目的性“只得是事物对,其自身而言的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So the arabesque of the plot, as I say, is a matter of encountering bad object choices and overcoming them: -- neatness, busyness--choices which, by the way, are on the surface temptations.

于是剧情精妙的发展，就变成做出错误选择然后克服困难了：,简洁，繁琐，选择其实就是诱惑。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

the zeroth law, which is the common-sense law, which says that if you take a hot object next to a cold object, heat will flow from the hot to the cold in a way that is well defined, and it allows you to define temperature.

上节课我们讨论了，热力学第零定律,这一定律源自常识：如果把一个热的物体,与一个冷的物体挨在一起，热量就会以确定的方式。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

- She turns to the most salient-- -- and this is the way social psychologists would say it-- -- turns to the most salient object in her immediate social environment-- -- that would be me--and says she's in love.

她转向于最突现的-,社会心理学家会说-,转向于直接社会环境中最突现的实体-,这个实体就是我,并说，她恋爱了。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选