And that was the most important thing for him." Abdul-Jabbar said at first he felt this was too good to be true, but he said he realized it was not after a month or two of seeing Wooden at work.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

Somewhere along the line in one damn incarnation or another, if you like, you not only had a hankering to be an actor or an actress, but to be a good one. You're stuck with it now.

在线路的某个地方，在化身或其他东西里，如果你想要，你不仅能渴望成为一个演员,也能成为一个出色的演员，你想现在是被困住了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's instead outside of them and, by convention, at the top of the file so that I can access it anywhere, whether or not this is a good thing, remains to be seen.

它在函数的外面，按照惯例，在文件的顶端，所以我可以在任何地方使用它,不管这是不是好事情，拭目以待。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

If language can refer to just about everything from English to traffic signals, then we're not going to be able to find interesting generalizations or do good science about it.

如果语言能够表示一切,从英语到交通信号,那我们就无法得出各种有趣的概论,或是无法对语言进行科学的研究

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Whatever the details might be, we could describe lives and say, whether or not their life was good as a whole, what the future holds out for them is negative.

不管详细情况是什么，我们可以把他们的生活形容为，不管他们一生的生活是否美好，他们的未来都是不容乐观的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

How do you deal with that trade-off where you absolutely need an ad sales force but at the same time, if one person at a time, you just can't say let's go out and hire five good engineers or five good ad sales people and not have them be great?

如何做出选择，如何取舍,当你急需一批销售人员，但如果只碰见一个合适的人选，你不只能因此去找,5个差不多的工程师,或者5个差不多的广告销售？

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

Controversial in the sense that maybe it's not a good thing to do, or there might be some limits on what we want to do there in terms of integrating machines with people's brains.

它的争议性在于这可能并不是一件好事,在我们想往人脑中植入机械时,会不会受到某种限制

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

There will be things in the class that are not covered in the readings, and may or may not be apparent from looking at the slides online, so coming to class is probably a good idea.

课上可能还会讲到阅读资料中没有的内容,可能网上的课件上也不一定包括这些内容,所以来上课才是明智之举

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

We've extrapolated that people have property rights and so whether or not it would be a good thing or a nice thing or even a necessary thing for the survival of some people, we don't see that that justifies the violation of the right that we've logically extrapolated.

我们已经推出人们有财产权,所以，就算是为了做好事，做善事,甚至是为了让某些人活下去而必须做的事，那也是不能证明，侵犯这些推定的权利,就是正当的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Maybe there is a difference there, I don't have a good theory as to what the difference is, since I don't have a good theory to what the difference is, I'm not in a good position to decide whether a reassembled body would be ? the same body or different body?

也许这两个案例是有不同，我没有充分的理论来,解释这两者之间的不同,由于我无法解释两者的不同，我也就无法去下结论,究竟重组的肉体,是原来的肉体还是不一样的肉体？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We've been talking about the question as to whether or not it would be desirable to live forever, whether immortality would actually be a good thing, as most of normally presume, or whether in fact, as Bernard Williams argues, it would be undesirable.

我们探讨的问题是,是否该有永生的渴望，永生是否像一般假想那样，是件好东西，或者其实，如Bernard，Williams所言，是不该期许之物。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选