Democrat Carolyn Maloney asked him about economist's predictions that it would take the country to full employment: "Assuming that jobs are created at 2.8 million jobs per year, the best job creation of any administration, and this was achieved by former President Clinton, how long would you expect it to take us to get back to full employment?" "Well,without offering an opinion on that 10.7 million jobs, at that rate though, it would be about three years."

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There are widespread controversies about it, and many of the courses you would take in law school are meant to try to get to the bottom of these thorny questions.

这个问题有很多争议，法学院的很多课都旨在,把这些棘手的问题弄得水落石出。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So things break if you try-- if the computer tries to take you too literally so it would not be correct generally to do something like that.

如果你把它分开-,那么电脑会逐字逐句地解析,你拆开写的代码,由此得到的结果一般都是错误的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

For a couple of reasons. In some ways, this would be nicer, do expected cases, it's going to tell you on average how much you expect to take, but it tends to be hard to compute, because to compute that, you have to know a distribution on input.

关注最快的情况，在某种意义上来说，因为一些原因这样想挺不错的，当我们处理一个给定的问题,计算平均时间的时候,是很难计算的，因为你并不知道输入的分布情况,这些输入会是怎么样的呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

You can take or leave literary theory, fine, but the idea that there would be such an incredible outcry against it was one of the most fascinating results of it.

上这门课也可以退掉这门课，都行，但是这种难以置信的强烈抗议,是开这门课最迷人的结果之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Much more from Plato. So again it raises the issue, if you want to know most about the most influential aspects for Western civilization, would it be better for you to take an entire semester on Plato than it would on the New Testament?

源自柏拉图，所以又回到这个问题上了，如果你想了解,西方文明最有影响力的方方面面，那是不是参加有关柏拉图课程,比新约课程更有用呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

You had to make--or your employer can do it for you-- they take the money to the post office and the post office would give you stamps.

你自己或者你的老板可以帮你-,将钱交到邮局,然后邮局把邮票给你。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

These are all my proofs to support all the things that I've already told you, but I'm not going to bother proving it, it would take too long.

以上是我给大家所讲的论据,虽然我不介意给大家论证一下,但是那会占用太多时间

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

We use a liquid helium. And so in order to make a liquid helium, you can't take helium at room temperature and do this, because if you did, you would just heat it up, because the room temperature is above the inversion temperature, so Joule-Thomson would heat up the helium.

为了得到液氦,不能再常温,做这个实验,否则就是加热氦气，因为室温高于它的转变温度,所以焦耳-汤姆孙，实验会加热氦气。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

And you can't... If the brain was wired up like a personal computer, it would take you four hours to recognize a face, but in fact, we could do things extremely quickly.

你无法,如果大脑是像个人电脑那样组装起来的话,那你识别出一张面孔就得花上四个小时,但事实上,我们能够非常迅速地完成某些事情

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I don't actually know exactly what it would take, but you just cut off and snip the relevant nerve endings so that we're no longer able to engage in that higher order thinking.

我不知道手术到底怎样做，但只要切除相关的神经末梢,让我们无法进行,更高层次的思维。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

When you would take the fluid from the cow, and you would inject it underneath the skin of a person you wanted to protect, then at that site where you injected it, you would get a lesion that looked like a smallpox or cowpox lesion.

当你从奶牛上得到脓液,并把脓液注射到想受到保护的,人的皮肤下面,然后在你注射的地方,你会看到像天花或者牛痘一样的病变

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

You take your room temperature liquid helium and you cool it with liquid nitrogen to 77 degrees Kelvin, the new, you're not quite there yet 77k unfortunately right? Then you take hydrogen you cool it would liquid nitrogen to 77, then you can use your hydrogen gas.

首先要有常温的氦气,拿液氮把它冷却到77k，那个新来的7,你不坐在那儿，对吧？,然后用液氮把氢气降温到,然后就可以使用这个氢气了，想要用氢气来做焦耳-汤姆孙实验。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选