It's a ladder used to ascend a tree, it's a kind of tool of ascent that's a kind of a tool for getting fruit.

这是用来爬上树的梯子，是一种上升的工具,也是用来摘果子的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

We call it a function. That is to say it has a function; it has a function within our understanding of the way in which a text has structure.

我们之所以称之为功能是因为它有功能;,我们文本结构的角度,去认识这种功能。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

A sinking dollar means a poorer nation and a superpower with a sinking currency is a contradiction in terms."

美元疲软意味着国家的衰落,而美国本身又是个超级大国,两者未免自相矛盾“

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

During this part, when you're doing a quarter of a circle, this is supposed to be a quarter of a circle.

在这部分,当你沿着四分之一圆运动,这就是个一个圆的四分之一

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

A To make an A paper in my class, A to make an A on a paper, not only does the paper have to have the right answers and fulfill the assignment, it has to be written elegantly and excellently.

在我的课上要拿，论文得，不仅内容回答要正确,符合要求，而且必须文笔优美。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So even within this framework of, given a description of a computation as a set of steps, in the idea that I could build a circuit to do it, let me suggest for you what would be a wonderful circuit to build.

所以即使需要在将计算描述，当成一系列步骤中的一步,这个框架之内,我也完全可以建立一个线路,来完成那个想法，让我为你们假设能建造起,一个多么棒的线路吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

One needs a heart, one a lung, one a kidney, one a liver, and the fifth a pancreas.

分别需要心脏移植，肺移植，肾移植，肝移植，以及胰腺移植。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Censorship only comes into play once a text has actually been in circulation for a while, only after a number of readers have found a published text to pose a threat.

控制仅仅是一本书已经出版发行一段时间,一些读者已经发现这印刷的文本,造成威胁时才起作用的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He was a hobo by choice: As a little boy, he'd seen a hobo come up to ask his mother for a piece of pie and she had given it to him and when the hobo went off down the road the little boy had said, "Ma, what was that fellow?" "Why, that's a hobo."

他是自愿成为流浪汉的：,当他还是个小男孩的时候，他见过一个流浪汉向他妈妈,要一块派，他妈妈给他了,于是当流浪汉离开的时候小男孩就问，“妈妈，那个家伙是谁“，“是个流浪汉“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

As it becomes more of a unity it will be like a household instead of a polis and a human being instead of a household.

当它愈趋近于一体,它变成像是家庭，而非都会,更像一个个体，而非家庭。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Well, you could show the baby a green patch, a green patch, a green patch, a green patch; the baby'll get bored, then a red patch.

你可以向婴儿呈现一个绿色色块,将这个绿色色块不停的重复呈现,婴儿便会感到厌倦,然后呈现一个红色色块

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Different kinds of polarity form, there's a head, and there's a tail, there's a back, there's a front, there's a left side and there's a right side.

不同的极性开始形成,有头端,也有尾端,有后面,也有前面,有左侧,也有右侧

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

D-A-V-I-D Well, if I've got a five-letter word like D-A-V-I-D, well, that's like five bytes and yet we only have the ability thus far in this class to return one thing at a time I can't return five bytes to you, but wait a minute, those bytes by nature of a computer are just stored in RAM.

好的，如果有5个字母的单词，如，那是5个字节,我们只能返回一个东西,而不能返回5个字节，等一下，这些字节被计算机本能地,存储在内存中。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So that's just a little bit of a check for yourself, and it should make sense because what you're doing is you're calculating the difference between energy levels, so you just need to flip around which you put first to end up with a positive number here, and that's a little bit of a check that you can do what yourself.

所以你们总要确保括号，离得这项是正的，这是你们自己,可以做的检查，这事很有道理的，因为你们做的是计算能量差,所以你需要调整顺序来保证一个正数，这是你们自己可以做的检查。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

This then leads to a very different discussion because A play is not a piece of text. A play is a living thing That is meant to be performed by actors in a particular setting. Different actors with different directors interpret the words of Shakespeare to the best. We can construct those words differently.

这引起一场很不同的讨论,因为一部戏剧不是一篇文章，而是活物,是要被演员在特定的场景下,表演出来的，不同的演员,和导演尽可能去诠释莎士比亚的文字,我们可以以不同方式建构这些文字。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

A casino does not have a risk that the law of large numbers will be repealed and a roulette table will be a long-term losing proposition or a craps table will be a long-term losing proposition.

一个赌场不会有,大数定理被替代,或者轮盘赌和,双骰赌博会是长期亏本买卖的风险。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选