If there is atmosphere in the passage I'm about to quote from Macbeth, it must be atmosphere of a certain kind and there for a certain reason.

如果下面这篇《麦克白》里的选段有所谓的“气氛“,那这种气氛一定因为某种原因以某种形式存在着。

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That is to say, there's a certain set of views I hold about the issues that we'll be discussing.

那就是说，我持某一个观点,关于我们要讨论的问题。

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When you speak about Greeks you will be speaking about something more than merely the fact that they spoke a certain language.

当你谈论到希腊人的时候,你不仅仅说,他们只是讲一种特定语言的人群

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His Leatherstocking Tales are full of a certain anxiety about what might be happening to that frontier, what's coming from east to west.

他的《皮袜子故事集》里弥漫着某种焦虑不安,它讲述了西进运动开拓者们从东部来到西部,有可能会遇到的一些事情

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This then is the object of historicizing and, as we'll see at the end of the lecture, there's a certain nobility about it to be juxtaposed with the nobility of Gadamerian hermeneutics.

这就是历史化的目标，在这节课快结束的时候我们会了解到，能和伽达默尔的解释学并置,它是受人尊敬的。

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What bothers Socrates most about our democracy is a certain kind of instability, its tendency to be pulled between extremes of anarchy, between lawlessness and tyranny.

苏格拉底对我们民主最感困扰的是,不稳定性，倾向于失序两端,拉扯的特性，即介于目无法纪与专制之间。

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Now, we know certain things about this empathy, some which might be surprising.

我们对移情有一定的了解，有些了解会让你吃一惊。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And we're actually going to get a little bit deeper in our clicker questions here, since when you do your problem-set it won't be quite this straight forward that you'll be answering this kind of question, but actually you'll be thinking about how many different orbitals can have certain state functions or certain orbital names.

事实上我们要讲的,比这个问题还要深一些，因为当你们做习题集的时候,你们不会遇到这么明显的问题，而是要考虑有多少个轨道,有某种特定的态函数,或者特定的轨道名字。

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We'll talk about where it comes from, and the biological, economic, and political reasons that drive food to be certain things, and we'll talk about what it does to us and for us.

我们会谈到它的来源,生物学,经济学方面和政治方面的因素,是如何影响食品的,我们还会谈到它对我们的影响和帮助

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Maybe there are certain supernatural things about communication from the dead or near-death experiences that need to be explained in terms of the soul.

也许有某些超自然的关于,亡者或是弥留之人的交流,或是,濒死体验,需要借助灵魂才能解释得通

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It could be that in thinking about the nature of the combination we're led to see that in certain ways the combination-- the interaction effects--are negative, are bad ones.

可能在考虑这种组合的本质时,我们看到了再某些方面这种组合-,相互影响，是负面的，是不好的。

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