If the stock went up yesterday, it's more likely to go up today, than if it didn't go up yesterday.

如果股票昨天涨了，今天涨的可能性也就更大，如果昨天没涨今天也不大可能会涨。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I think the answer may involve the possibility that at the beginning of the poem, there simply wasn't a clear distinction between the poet and the speaker.

答案可能包括了,在诗歌的开头,根本就没有一个清晰的区分的可能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And the question is, what do we want to count? Now, one possibility is to do best case.

问题是，我们应该针对哪种状况？,一种可能性是针对最好的情况，也就说在所有可能的输入里面。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

If you stop and be aware of your breath, it would reduce the likelihood of going to have the spiral feeling like that. -Thank you.

如果停下来，留意呼吸，就能避免有不断恶化,感觉的可能性，谢谢你。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Recall you get less of an effect if you have to touch the guy but distance makes it easier for you to kill him.

刚才讲过如果你要碰被电击者，可能性就降低,但隔着距离，你就更容易下手。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Socrates' disillusion of that very framework,challenges, it seems to me, the very possibility of political life by questioning the question or the distinction between friend and enemy.

苏格拉底,对这个框架的醒悟，在我看来，挑战了政治生活的可能性,就在他提问,或区别友与敌的问题时。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Well again, I can say the words, but when I try to imagine that possibility and take it seriously, at least speaking personally, it doesn't--it doesn't hold up.

我能说出这种假设，但当我想象那种可能性,并严肃考究时，起码就我而言，它也站不住脚。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Much like the opportunities in the word "plastic," I think it's useful to suggest that this sense of gapping a spark plug may have some relevance to our understanding of what goes on in this reading process.

就像说到“塑料“时的几种可能性“,值得一说的是，这种火花塞间隙的概念,可能与我们的阅读有关,它让我们了解到阅读过程到底是怎样的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And if we also ask the positive question, then some new possibilities,new quests open up, just like they did for the researchers when they started to ask ?" no longer "why do so many individuals fail?"

如果我们也问积极问题，那就会出现新的可能性，新的探索，就像他们对研究学者所问的一样,不再问“为什么有这么多人堕落“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

If the experimenter gives you instructions by phone, you're less likely to do it.

如果实验者通过电话指示你电击，你电击的可能性就减少。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If the dualist comes and says, "Can't you just see that it's not remotely possible, it's not conceivably possible, for a purely physical object to have experiences, to have qualia?"

如果是二元论者,他们则会走过来说,你没觉得吗,一个纯粹的物理对象,能够拥有体验和感受性的可能性,简直微乎其微,就连想想都觉得难以置信

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

On any dimension that psychologists have measured in these kinds of studies, when people are more similar they are more likely to find each other attractive.

心理学家在,这类研究中的研究维度，双方越相似,被对方吸引的可能性就越大。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

People have names. People have distinct, individual names that mark them as people and once you know somebody's name you are less likely to do bad things to them.

人都有各具个性的名字,这标志他们的人性,一旦你知道某个人的名字,你对他行恶的可能性就会降低。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Still, at least the possibility that we could work these out is still there, so I suppose there is still at least the possibility that bodily resurrection would be coherent, in such way there would still be the same body.

至少还存在解答这些,问题的可能性，我认为至少还存在,这种可能性,肉体复活是存在的，这样的话就会产生原来的肉体。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So if it went up yesterday, it will more likely go up today, because I'm throwing in a positive number, otherwise a negative number.

所以如果它昨天涨了，那么它几天张的可能性也就比较大，因为我给它的是一个正值，否则就是一个负值。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

If an ordinary man, not the guy in a white lab coat but an ordinary guy, says, "Hey, keep shocking him, that's okay," you're less likely to do it, and if there is a rebellion, if somebody else rebels and says, "I won't do it," you are much more likely not to do it yourself.

如果是一个普通人，不是穿白大褂的,只是一个普通人说，”继续电击他，没问题的“,你进行电击的可能性会减少，如果有电击者反抗，如果有电击者不听命令说”我不电击“,你电击的可能性就更低。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选