"The volunteer is actually the face of South Africa to anyone who will be coming here for first time, even those that will be coming here for the second or third time who actually don't know our venue well.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

The speaker-narrator lies back and wonders if the world will ever be saner. His neighbor says, "Well, I don't think so.

讲述者躺回去并思考,世界是否会变得更加理智，他的邻居说，我并不这么认为。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

> Okay. Well, I see the two pointers, but they don't seem to be pointing to anything.

>，好的，呃，我看到那两个指针，但是他们好像,没有指向任何东西。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

However, in our culture today, we don't give ourselves the permission to be human, the freedom to experience these painful emotions as well.

然而在当今的文化中，我们不准许自己为人，也没有体会痛苦情绪的自由。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

When paid a dollar they said, "Well, I don't want to be a donkey.

拿到一美元的人说，“我不想像当个吃力不讨好的家伙。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

People say we don't--well, we don't, but we do have an emergency care system so that anybody who is suddenly stricken will be taken to a hospital and taken care of.

人们说没有，好吧，那就没有，但我们确实有急救护理制度,让突然受伤的人,可以被送往医院并且得到救护。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Particularly, if we took advantage of the fact that this is a virus that's easily transmitted orally and could you make a vaccine that would be effective orally as well, that would be a tremendous advantage, especially in children who don't like to get shots.

尤其是,如果我们可以利用这种病毒,很容易经口传播这一事实,制造出一种,可以通过口服而起到同样效果的疫苗,那么这将是一个巨大的飞跃,特别是对于那些不喜欢打针的孩子

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Why should citizens of one state, namely one's own have any moral priority over the citizens of another state when, again, we don't know them and we may well be mistaken in our assumption ? that they are enemies or friends?

为何一国的公民，即为何某人能拥有,凌驾其它城邦公民的道德优势,尤其是我们根本不了解他们,我们可能误将他们,错认为是敌人或朋友？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Maybe you don't control thermostats in your dorm room, some of you do and some of you don't probably, and maybe it doesn't work very well so it might not be a good example, but imagine a perfect thermostat that you set for a temperature and then the temperature stays the same inside the room no matter what the temperature is outside.

可能你根本就不理卧室里的恒温器,有些人去调它,有些人就置之不理,可能它压根就是坏的,所以这个例子也许并不恰当,但你还是想象一个完美运行的恒温器,你设定温度后房间里的温度就保持不变,不管外面温度是多少

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

A public--a lot of companies don't want to be public because you can't keep secrets very well; you've got to regularly put those things up online and they're out there for everybody to see.

很多公司不愿意上市,因为这样就无法保守公司机密,你必须定期把公司信息公布到网上,让全世界都看得到

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And he looks at me and says, " "Well I don't know Tal. I expected you to be taller."

他看着我说，“我也说不上，Tal，我以为你会更高些“

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