And how far in advance he had even been thinking about some of the stuff that he had done

他很早前就开始构思他的作品了，

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The reason I tell you this is that I don't want people feeling that, well, the paper is going to start to decompose or something if I don't get to him by 5:00 today.

我给你的解释是,我不想让人感到，试卷开始变质,或是我不能在今天五点前和他见面。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So before we proceed, I need to ask you to set aside for the purposes of this course, some of the more common myths about the Bible.

所以在外面真正开始上课前,我希望大家为了学好这门，课能把原先那些刻板印象放到一边。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Note that in the opening pages of the book, Aristotle doesn't say anything yet about what kind of city or regime is best.

注意在书一开始的前几页，亚里士多德并未谈到,任何有关最佳城市或政体的言论。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

You've worked with this already so you're a little bit familiar with it, and at the outset here I have two questions for you.

我们听过这首曲子,你们会觉得有些熟悉,开始前,我为你们准备了两个问题

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It's kind of a silly tradition that we started a few years ago.

这或许是个有点奇怪的传统,但我们从几年前就已经开始这样做了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Question: Doctor, before you perform autopsy ? did you check for a pulse?

问题，医生，在你开始解剖前,你检查了脉搏吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I needed about an half hour ahead start on him in the office in order to be sufficiently prepared to visit with him which I did every morning shortly after he arrived.

我需要在他之前,半个小时前就开始工作,为的是做好充分准备,跟他谈话,我每天早上,他到达办公室后都要跟他谈。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The World Health Organization keeps track of what countries have cases of polio and when they occur, and what the frequency of--So, this is a map from a few years ago and there are efforts that occur occasionally.

世界卫生组织一直跟踪记录,发生小儿麻痹症的国家及发病时间,以及发生的频率,那么,这是从几年前开始统计的,一个地图,这里是一些偶然产生的成就

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And a lot of it is already in those books but my hope is that our goal to the next book by transcending it through this common experience with you and already thinking in those terms.

很多书有讲这些哲学问题,但我希望通过和你们一起的经历,我们的下一本书,能够超过上一本书,这些都已经在前几个学期开始构思了。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

You've got to spend the time to make sure that everything is well defined before you start trying to work out these problem More about the path. There are a couple ways you could go through that pass If I look at this smooth path here.

你要花时间确认,在你开始尝试解题前,切已经被很好地定义,关于路径还有些问题,你可以用两种不同的方式经过这条路径,看这条平滑的路径。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

But as the foreign slave trade was closed off, for a whole variety of reasons, only one of which was that there was this passage, sort of a vow, in the original Constitution that the question would be re-visited in 20 years, and 1808 was 20 years.

但随着海外奴隶交易,基于多种原因被封闭之后,这段只提到其中一个原因,是由于最初的宪法契约,这个问题要追溯到二十年前,内战开始前20年即1808年

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Before we start on the trip, I want the children to know where in the world they are and where they've come from.

在我们开始旅行前，我希望孩子们知道,他们在世界的那个位置,他们来自哪里。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

All right, before I move on, are there any questions about details of the class or requirements, or readings, or anything people are having trouble getting on top of?

好了,对于在我开始讲课前,讲的关于课程以及要求,还有问题吗,大家还有没有不懂的地方

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

I want to start my lecture today looking back to that handout I gave you -but didn't give you a discussion of--a couple of days ago, ] from that essay Good Readers and Good Writers that I quoted at the very beginning of class this term.

今天我将用几天前发给你们的,却没有进行讨论的资料，开始我们的课程，从那篇叫做“好的作家和好的读者“的文章开始,我曾在本学期课程的最开始引用过它。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It functions for a while before the P-functioning begins.

在人格功能产生前就开始运作。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And similarly, particularly for those less comfortable, do we offer prior to the start of each week for a new piece at what we dub a walkthrough whereby one of the teaching fellows will literally start on the first page, give you a mental framework for the week's problems and talk about the ideas that it covers, and then walk through the piece set so that you have a roadmap of sorts that you can follow.

同样，特别对于那些不熟悉编程跟不上进度的同学，每周上课前都可以预习新的知识点,一名教师从第一页开始,对于每周的问题,都给你们简历一个心理框架,并讨论它所涵盖的思想，然后了解了每个部分之后,就可以有个学习的路线图。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

G2 is a phase that indicates the gap between when DNA synthesis occurs and when the next mitotic event occurs.

2期是在DNA合成期完成后,到分裂期开始前的间期

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Okay. So today we--Actually, before I get to that, any questions from you?

好的,今天我们,事实上,在我开始前,大家有什么问题吗

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

I mean unlike a lot of the courses here and at universities, we really do take a much more individualistic approach and that is to say at the end of the day do we consider both upward trending, both your initial experience and also how you approach the course's projects throughout the course of the semester.

我不希望像其他很多课程或在大学中，我们将会采取更个性的方法,也就是说在当天结束前,我们会同时考虑课程进度，考虑你开始的情况,以及如何进行整个学期的学习,也包括如何通过这门课,来帮助你们完成本学期的课程。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And so the first three chapters take you through the history of chemistry starting with Democritus.

前三章将带你们回顾,化学的历史，由Democritus开始。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选