And these texts almost defy interpretation by a modern person, unless you have guidance from a historian and expert like moi.

这些文本几乎无法由现代人翻译，除非由历史学家或专家指导，比如我。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

- Those of you with backgrounds in history or we've seen -- or remember World War II with technologies that were used in it might know of the Enigma machine, which is kind of the same idea.

你们其中有历史背景的人或者我们看到的-,或记得起的第二次世界大战中使用的,可能知道的英格玛装置，那是一种同样的思想。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

What it refers to is people get the impression that they can control randomness.

准神奇式思考指的是人们认为,自己可以做出某些行动,解除原来的决定或改变历史

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

These doctrines have not simply been refuted or replaced or historically superceded; they remain in many ways constitutive of our most basis outlooks and attitudes.

这些学说没有被轻易地驳倒，取代,或被淹没于历史洪流;,他们在很多层面上,维持着我们本质上最基本的看法与态度。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

One consequence of this view is that for Yeats history starts to look like a poem, or it starts to conform to laws of poetic imagination or of tragedy, if you like, of myth.

这导致了,叶芝的历史观诗化了，或说是符合悲剧中,诗意想象的规律了，也可以说，神秘主义了。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Well,that's going to inflate the numbers too because the only managers that kind of raise their hand and say, hey I've got this interesting new approach to managing domestic equities--or whatever the asset class is -are the ones that have succeeded.

当然是会让指数起点偏高,因为经理人倾向于提供那些,举手说找到有趣的新方法,来管理国内股权投资,或其他投资的,成功的历史数据

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选