It's an everyday occurrence that we can think and reason and feel and be creative, or choose otherwise and have free will.

我们能思考推理,感知创造,或能做出不同的选择,拥有自由意志,都是每天存在的事

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We know no one's going to choose 68 and above, so we can just forget them.

我们知道没人会选择68及以上的数,所以可以忽略它们

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

In other words, we choose a convention for the zero of entropy, so that then we can write entropies of products and reactants always referring to the same standard state.

换句话说，我们选择了一个,焓零点的约定，这样我们,就可以总是相对于同样的标准,状态写出生成物和反应物的焓。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The condition of our whole existence is but to struggle with evil, to compare them, to choose between them, evils that is, and so far as we can to mitigate them.

我们整个生活状况,就是在与邪恶相斗争中,不断地比较和选择,然后决定什么是邪恶,这样我们才能消除邪恶

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But if we have credit markets, then people can individually choose to be off the production possibility frontier and at a higher level of consumption than otherwise would.

但如果存在信贷市场,那么个人可以选择超越,PPF曲线的范围,达到比没有信贷市场时更高的消费水平

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In the first game, it was kind of clear that we should choose Alpha and here it's not at all clear what we can do-- what we should do.

在第一个博弈里,我们很显然应该选α,但这次我们应该怎么选就很不确定了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Why don't you write down a second on the corner of your notepad what it is you're going to choose to do with my T.A.'s watching so we can't cheat.

请你们各自在笔记本上写下你们的选择,让助教监督一下,以防你们沟通好了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

It turns out we can express all these functions in terms of G, G we wouldn't need to choose G, but it's a very useful function to choose.

最终我们能把所有的这些函数,用自由焓G表示出来，我们没有必要选择，但是这个选择很有用。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选