"The organization doesn't have to expose its inner-most secrets to pull in somebody from New York and say here's how to hook up some propane tanks."

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

And I'll say "how are you" and you say something to the effect that if I could afford a latte in this world, I'm doing well.

我问您最近怎么样，您有一次,说了一句话，大致意思是，如果我能,享受得起一杯拿铁，那一切就还好。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And that's basically trying to make sure our program has not regressed, as to say, gone backwards in how well it works. And so we always test it on everything.

这只是从根本上确保,我们的程序并没往后退，也就是说在可用性方面倒退了,因此我们在任何东西上,都要进行这样的测试。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Many say cutbacks in services are inevitable, and there is constant debate about how to balance health services with rising costs, rising demand and less revenue.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

There are absolutely going to be times where you're running a program where the programmer, say you, didn't possibly know in advanced how much RAM the program was going to need.

它们总是在,程序员运行程序的地方，你可能预先不知道那个程序,需要多少内存。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The researchers say if people want to avoid heart disease, they should be more aware of how much sugar is in their food, and reduce it,if need be.

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

Because it's one thing to say we don't yet know how to explain consciousness in physical terms.

因为尚不知晓,如何从物理的角度去解释意识是一码事

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The scientists say if their work is confirmed, it could lead to further research on how lifestyle choices figure in the prevention and treatment of age-related decline and diseases such as Alzheimer's.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

What an odd thing to say, but in any event here is how this works.

说起来这是多么古怪的事,但这里,我们要讲乐曲的原理

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

She says educating people about how to prevent the transmission of the virus that causes AIDS is crucial in a country where only about 16 percent of young people say they know how to protect themselves.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

Then, if you want to say, how many human beings lived in Attica at it greatest, we are speaking about something between a 125,000 and 300,000.

那如果你想问,阿提卡当时有多少人口,我们说大约在十二万五千至三十万之间

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In his Cairo address, President Obama pledged to support governments that protect the rights of people to speak their minds and have a say in how they are governed, that respect the rule of law and the equal administration of justice, that are transparent and don't steal from the people.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

How is Foucault going to mount an argument in which privileged authors -that is to say, figures whom one cites positively and can somehow or another stay in the picture?

福柯又如何为特殊的作者辩护呢,特殊的作者即是经常被一个人引用,这些作家能被辩护吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Let's say you want to see how something like cigarette smoking is changing in the population and the rates of cigarette smoking, and you want to look at people every five years from 1970 to 2000.

比如你想知道,人群中吸烟者的人数变化,和吸烟者的比例,在1970年至2000年每五年的情况

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Conversely, if I chose a Beta and my pair chooses an Alpha, so I end up with a C and she ends up with an A, then you know I have a bad time explaining to my parents why I got a C in this class, and I have to say about how I'm going to be president anyway.

相反如果我选β我对手选α,我得到C她得到了A,我回家后很难跟父母,解释为什么我只得到了C,然后我还得表示下雄心壮志

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

There's a whole bunch of blocks that we'll look at in more fun detail on Friday but I'm going to pick the easiest one here and I'm going to type Hello CS50 in this string, "Hello CS50", zooming in say how nice the puzzle pieces are nicely interlocked?

今天我们看到的各种图块,到下周五我会仔细讲解其中的精妙之处,但今天我只想举一个最简单的例子,我要在这儿键入字符串，放大窗口，然后看看这漂亮的图形和文字,是如何美妙地连结在一起的？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Now, the best possible response would be for the physicalist to say, "Here's how to build a machine that can be conscious in this sense.

物理主义者们现在,能做出的最好的回答就是,从这个意义上去理解,就能造出一台,具有意识的机器

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

How do you get there? You go to go here, here and these could be busy roads, and so parents don't want to do it because of safety reasons, so you see how--when the country used to be laid out in a grid, like say New York City still is today, then people walk to get to places.

那要怎么才能去呢,你得绕道这里,还有那里的繁忙路段,出于安全原因家长们不允许孩子们这么做,可以看到,规划为网格状道路的地区,比如依旧保留了传统规划的纽约,人们出行是靠步行

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 talked about the auditory cortex the first section and maybe there are other parts of the brain that are factoring in here as well but how is it that composers send this information to let's say, our auditory cortex here?

我们在第一节课的时候谈到过听觉皮层,也许大脑的其他部分,也参与了进来,但作曲家是怎么做到把这些信息,传送到我们所谓的听觉皮层的呢

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选