Imagination seems to be a guide to possibility; but maybe not always.

想象似乎是可能性的向导,但也许并非总是

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And I've always wanted to be in the army, but South African army is not as, not that great, you know, so.

我一直想去部队，但是南非的部队并不是那么好。

想当军人的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Now, the poems that you'll be reading, we'll be talking about, did not, of course, always exist in the form that you find them.

我们现在要阅读讨论的这些诗篇，当然并不总是以我们看到的形式出现的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

They're not stories about pious people whose actions are always exemplary and whose lives should be models for our own, despite what Sunday School curricula will often turn them into.

不是讲那些应该拿来做榜样的,圣人的典范故事,只有主日学校会把他们讲成那样。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The possibilities of freedom must always, in their view, be balanced with the world as it as--not as it ought to be.

在他们看来,自由的存在可能性,必须与现实相结合,而不是理所当然的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The reform of politics may not be within our power but the exercise of self-control always is.

政治改革,也许并非我们能力所及,但自控的练习却永远是想要参与政治改革的个体。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

nd this convergence can never be precisely pinpointed, but must always remain virtual, as is not to be identified either with the reality of the text or with the individual disposition of the reader."

而我们永远无法指出，“…,这种会合的确切位置，这个空间会一直以虚拟形式存在,不论是客观的文本,还是带有个人特征的读者都无法辨别它“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And you're not always going to be able to tell.

你经常说不出来会发生什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And that's somewhat inconvenient because we're working with wave functions, but it's a reality that comes out of quantum mechanics often, which is that we're describing a world that is so much different from the world that we observe on a day-to-day basis, that we're not always going to be able to make those one-to-one analogies.

这对于研究氢原子，很不方便,但这就是事实,而且在量子力学中经常会出现这种事实,那就是我们要描述的世界，和我们日常所看到的世界,之间的差别是如此之大,以至于我们不能，做出一一对应的类比,但幸运的是我们不用管。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

A kind of addition approach to values of wholes may not always be correct.

一种把所有价值加起来的方法不一定一直正确。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

As you move later in their history, you find you can guess that there would be councils that were not purely of nobles but might be of wealthy people, but they would always be a minority and come from the upper class.

随着你们进一步了解希腊的历史,你们能轻易猜想到议会组成人员中,不仅仅只有贵族,还有富人,但他们都是来自上层阶级的少数人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Of course, we will also be talking about behavioral finance in this course and we'll, at times, be saying that the utility function concept isn't always right-- the idea that people are actually maximizing expected utility might not be entirely accurate.

当然 我们还会,在这门课上讨论行为金融学,并且,我们会间或,讨论到效用函数不总是正确的,人们希望最大化期望效用的观点,也许并不是完全准确的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He tells a story about something he calls "the state of nature," a term he did not invent, but with which his name will always and forever be associated, the idea of the state of nature.

他讲了一个故事，叫做,“自然状态“，这不是他所发明的词，但他的名字,总是会，也永远会和，“自然状态“联系在一起。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Because it says, your program will still give you a value, but it may not be what you intended, and you can't always tell, and that may propagate it's way down through a whole bunch of other computations before it causes some catastrophic failure.

因为这意味着，你的程序依然会返回一个值，但是这个值可能不是你想要的，你可能还分辨不出来，而且这种情况会传播,结果会沿着正果计算过程传播下去,直到产生一个灾难性的错误。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It is certainly possible, for example, that a quadratic algorithm could run faster than a linear algorithm. It depends on what the input is, it depends on, you know, what the particular cases are. So it is not the case that, on every input, a linear algorithm is always going to be better than a quadratic algorithm.

一个二次平方级复杂度的算法,当然也是可能跑的比线性复杂度算法快的,这取决于，你知道的，输入以及特定的案例，因此并不是对于每个输入,线性复杂度就一定会,比二次平方级复杂度的算法的表现要好,只是通常来说是这样的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选