Today's word,pan, takes us back to the days of the gold rush in California.

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So we can think of this term has to do with complementarity, or synergy, a very unpopular word these days but still: synergy.

因此我们可以把合作理解为互补或协同,虽然协同这个词现在不是很常用了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

- Now that's a slight lie-- or actually in these days of political debates, a slight misspeaking, a wonderful word-- -- it is technically correct. It is enough to allow us to write any program, but it's not enough to allow us to easily write any program.

现在还有点说谎的感觉,或者在这些强调政治辩论的日子中，可以说成是有些词不达意-,这是一个绝妙的形容词,在语义上是完全正确的，用这种语言我们可以编写任何程序,但是不能轻松地编写程序。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So leadership is kind of a big word that you see written probably too often these days, in too many newspaper articles, and it probably comes up in too many Yale classes, and I don't claim to know anything about leadership.

领导力这个大词,最近一直都很火啊,我们经常能在报章中看到它,在耶鲁大学的课堂里也能经常听到,我不敢说对领导力有多么深刻的见解

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选