So we work very closely with students not so much about what they want to study, but more about what problem are you trying to solve."

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Right now, we want to study an entity which has no spatial extent.

目前,我们学习没有空间延伸的物体

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

By "Present," We mean-- we will pick some part of the universe we want to study and we will ask, "What information do I need to know for that system at the initial time, like, right now, in order to be able to predict the future?"

我们所说的"现在",意思是,我们会选取客观世界某一部分来进行研究,然后我们就会问,我们需要什么信息去了解,初始时刻的系统,比如现在,进而能使我们能够预测未来呢

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Suppose you hate development; you hate developmental psychology; you hate babies; you hate children; they're not cute; they're ugly; you don't want to have them; you don't want to study them; you're annoyed that we have to discuss them.

假设你讨厌发展,讨厌发展心理学,讨厌婴儿,讨厌儿童,他们不可爱,他们很丑陋,你不想有孩子,也不想去研究他们,你对我们探讨儿童觉得厌烦

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Why are you here? That is to say, why should you, we, all of us, want to study these ancient Greeks?

翻译：桃金娘银,傲骨临风 时间轴：波多 校对监制：atlayao,yank123,梁良,为什么在座的,包括我自己,都想要研究古希腊

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选