Huck's heart leads him to do the right thing, even when everything he has been taught tells him it is wrong.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

Your first thing is responsibility to fulfill your rights to your people, to your culture, to your family, to your government.

你的首要任务是履行义务而不是行使权利,对人民，对文化圈，对家庭，对政府都是如此。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Think about that. That says, if this thing has some particular value, I want to do one thing; otherwise, I want to do something different.

考虑考虑，这意味着，如果这个事情有一些特殊的值，我就去做一件事情;,否则的话，我就会去做另外一件事情。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"The thing about poets," he says, "is they like to stay up and talk until about four in the morning.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

Suppose we conjecture that the only thing intrinsically valuable is pleasure and the only thing intrinsically bad is pain.

假设我们推测出唯一,拥有固有价值的东西是快乐,唯一一样自身是坏的东西是痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"So,I'm also now a wilderness EMT so it's totally a good thing to have when you're out rock climbing."

VOA: special.2009.12.09

That's sort of what that's like, but the really important thing is what's the worst thing that can happen.

这和我们说的有点相像，但是真正重要的事情是,可能发生的最坏的事情是什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But if irrigation fails, the best thing to do is to go to a health careprovider for professional assistance.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

Now for now, its hard to argue that this is a good thing but it's a common thing.

现在，不好争论这是一个好事情,但这是一个通常的事情。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Pieter Hoff says the nice thing about the siphons is that, once collected, the water is not able to evaporate anymore.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

One other thing I think that's really, maybe it's a small thing, there's one other glaring thing here.

我还有个想法,虽然有点无关紧要,但也是显而易见的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The important thing,says one expert, is to find the right tree for the right place for the right use.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

This is one thing I find striking about those memoirs, but it's an interesting thing to ponder as we think about Lolita.

我觉得这非常有趣，就像lolita一样值得我们思考。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Mister Bandelier saw the ruins of the ancient pueblo or village and said "This is the grandest thing I ever saw."

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Regardless of what we think of the success of that example or of the appeal of the attempt to do such a thing, the amazing thing, I think, is that Milton felt so empowered even to embark on such an enormous project.

他的重建是否成功了我们姑且不论,也不说我们对他的这个雄心作何看法，我认为，不可思议的是，米尔顿觉得自己是如此有力量,他甚至真的开始了这样一项宏大的工程。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But counterfeit drugs may contain too much, too little or none of the active ingredients of the real thing.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

There are lots of people who have pointed out to us that before a certain period, there was no such thing as man, and in a variety of quite real senses, after a certain moment in the history of culture, there is also no such thing as man.

很多人向我们指出,在某一特定时间点前是没有人类的，而且在真实意义上，在文化史中的某一特定时刻后，人类也不存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Police say one thing that makes discussion of this law difficult is that many critics have not read the law.

VOA: special.2010.07.03

That's the main thing that they observed, but there's a second thing.

这是他们观察到得主要现象，但是第二件事。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"You know, the judge sentenced me here, so my first thoughts were kinda, you know,uh,this is kinda, Shakespeare's not my thing.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

It is not easy to say,what is the right thing,or what is the wrong thing.

我们不能简单地说,什么是对的,什么是错的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"It is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

Yeah, they had this thing-- they hit this thing called the octave.

是的,他们有这个,他们碰到了这个叫做八度的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

"People made friends more. I noticed that people would sit with strangers and have conversations, so that was a great thing.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

There's this whole sense that the thing is precarious and you'd better kind of mind your Ps and Qs, or whatever the expression is, and be a good person or this whole thing could kind of be literally flooded away.

从这个场景中可以看出堤坝相当不稳定,你最好想想干过什么缺德事儿,或者捅过什么篓子之类的,总之得做个好人,否则,这整个城市就可能真会被大水冲走

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

She had been addressing Christmas cards, and the only thing that came to her mind was 'Merry' as in Merry Christmas."

VOA: special.2009.12.21

But one thing we should not do right one thing we should not do is to approach these works as if they provide somehow answers ready-made answers to the problems of today.

但有一件事我们不能做,就是我们不能在阅读这些著作时,认定它们好像能提供解答,制定好用来回答,现今问题的解答。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

His name was never in the papers. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

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

The same thing happens in the 1870s, there's a revival of that old time religion, and it's helped by various miracles and that kind of thing, but which I'll talk about in the lecture on religion, which is kind of fun--it's fun to do.

十九世纪七十年代发生了同样的事情,那时候旧时代的宗教复兴了,而它得益于许多神迹之类的,但那是我在宗教讲座上要讨论的东西,那会很有趣的

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选