"Well, we know that it could be genetic. And we know that there are certain families where there is a high incidence of fibromyalgia in three generations.

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Can we altogether dispense with the idea that certain things we take pleasure in are better or worthier than others?

我们能摒弃这个观点吗,即我们某些喜好，比其它更好或更有价值？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

is to see through the group of human rights, if there are certain levels of social justice that we can ensure for every last person simply because they are human.

它提出要看到所有这些人权的本质，如果存在不同层次的社会正义,我们就要保证每个人获得某种程度的正义,就因为他们是人。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And what we've been talking about with all of these properties are, of course, how can we figure out what that is for a certain atom by looking at the periodic table, so we want to think about the periodic trend for atomic radius.

对于我们讲过的这些性质，我们所讨论的一直都是,当然是，我们如何能够判断某一个原子的这些性质,通过观察周期表，因此我们需要思考一下原子半径的周期性规律。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Since the 1990s, we've seen a proliferation of new kinds of mortgages that especially are offered to low-income people by certain lenders.

从20世纪90年代,我们看到一种新型抵押贷款在快速发展,它由特定贷款人向低收入人群发放

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We can often better understand the dialogues by seeing Socrates as putting forward certain positions that he does not think are altogether adequate.

通过了解那些由苏格拉底提出,但他自己也觉得不充分的观点,我们可以更好地理解这些对话作品

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We have certain instincts that are there and have been formed either God-given or evolutionary-given for millions of years that have been formed.

我们有生而有之的本能,或上天赐与或经几百万年,在进化中形成。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Just as soon as we crowded our imagination already with the image of the spear the size of a Norwegian pine, which took a certain imaginative leap on our parts, we realize that Satan and his spear are immeasurably larger even than that.

我们已经对于,那棵已然吸引了我们大量注意力的挪威松木，及和之相比的长矛的大小浮想联翩了，我们意识到撒旦和他的长矛甚至比松木还要广大无边。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Instead, it turns out that there are certain phobias that we're specially evolved to have.

相反，我们所拥有的某些恐怖症,则是进化而来的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

This is another thing to notice. He's not just making us experience Lolita's name the way he does; he's assuming that there are certain kinds of questions that we will ask. "Did she have a precursor?"

这也值得注意，他不仅让我们体会,他感知到的Lolita的名字，他想象出了,我们可能会提出的问题，在她之前还有别人吗“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So, we have a certain mode of talking about things that we own or things that are close to us "My arm, my heart, my child, my car."

我们对我们所拥有的,或是与我们有关的事物,有着特定的表述模式,比如,"我的胳膊,我的心脏,我的孩子,我的爱车"

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

We can say that there are certain things that are good above and beyond experiences-- the right kinds of accomplishments, the right kind of knowledge.

我们可以认为有某些事情,是美好的，它们非经验所能比拟-,比如合适的成就，合适的知识。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It could be that in thinking about the nature of the combination we're led to see that in certain ways the combination-- the interaction effects--are negative, are bad ones.

可能在考虑这种组合的本质时,我们看到了再某些方面这种组合-,相互影响，是负面的，是不好的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Some of these books which we think are roughly from a certain date, they will contain narrative snippets or legal materials or oral traditions that may even date back or stretch back further in time, and they were perhaps transmitted orally and then ended up in these written forms.

有些篇章只是被我们粗略地认为出现于那个年代，其中包含的故事片段或律法材料或口头传统,其实也许能够追溯到更久远，所以这些很可能一开始是被口头传播,后来才用文字形式记载的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选