Now, of course, it could still be that in the real world the one thing cannot exist without the other.

还是可以说,在真实世界里,某物不能脱离于另一物而独立存在

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They aren't recourse to a separate science or lore or body of knowledge or interpretive craft that calls upon forces or powers that transcend God or are independent of God.

不依赖于某种独立的技术或知识而存在,或者通过某种手段把超越上帝,或者不受上帝控制的力量聚集起来。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Pick any two perpendicular directions Then the same entity, the same arrow which has an existence of its own, independent of axis, can be described by you and me using different numbers.

选取两个互相垂直的方向,这样同样的物体,同一矢量,并且是独立于坐标轴而存在的,可以被你和我用不同的数字来描述

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选