It was, above all, the influence of the classics, Aristotle and Cicero in particular, that Hobbes regards as an important cause for the recent civil war and the regicide of Charles I.

霍布斯认为，正是受这些古典作品的影响，尤其是亚里士多德和西塞罗的作品，才导致了最近内战的爆发,和对查理一世国王的处决。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Although that might cause concern for some people, forcing people to vote is definitely not the answer.

也许这会让一些人担忧，但是强迫人们去投票绝对不是解决问题的方法。

对于义务投票制 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Local people would attack the Jews, or the Jews would try to set up an extra big meeting house for themselves, and it would cause local problems.

当地人攻击犹太人，或者犹太人企图建造超大的礼拜堂，引起各种问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

When you've got a view about cause and effect that works this way-- for everything that happens, there's some earlier thing that caused it to happen such that given that earlier cause, the event had to follow-- that's a deterministic picture.

当你认为因和果,是以这种方式互相作用的,对于所发生的一切,总有些事先发生,然后它们导致这些事发生,于是一旦给定了前因,这些后果必定会接着发生,这是一个决定论的图景

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

cause we only have couple of minutes, Ok, it's alright So, for next time, you are going to read about Death in Venice...the introduction that's the movie we're going to watch next week ? But, what do you read for next time?

因为我们只剩几分钟了，可以，没问题,那么，下一次,你们要读《魂断威尼斯》，的介绍,这是我们下周要看的电影,那你们下一次上课之前读什么呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Meaning, we're going to try to help you with how to develop good programming style, but you need to write in a way in which it is going to be easy for you to spot the places that cause those semantic bugs to occur.

这意味着我们会帮助你,形成良好的编程风格，但是你需要去以一种,容易发现,程序中,容易发生语义bug的地方的方式去写代码。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And the election was entirely God's initiative and is no cause for Israel to boast. So Deuteronomy 7, verses 6-8 read: For you are a people consecrated to the Lord your God: of all the peoples on earth the Lord your God chose you to be His treasured people.

而选择也完全是上帝自愿的,不该是以色列吹嘘的原因，《申命记》第7章6-8节：,因为你归耶和华你身为圣洁的民：,从地上的万民中拣选你,耶和华选你作自己的子民。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Acting becomes a religious practice for much more than Franny, not just for Franny and for Zooey 'cause Zooey's an actor too.

对弗兰尼而言，表演变成了宗教的实践，不只是对弗兰尼，还对左伊，因为左伊也是一个演员。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I had to argue for this to happen, cause I really feel that this class isn't about me.

我来解释一下我的理由 我觉得,这门课不应该仅仅由我来讲

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

So, if I wanted to cause you to feel moral concern for a fetus, I would do well to describe it as a pre-born child.

所以如果我想你对胎儿产生道德关怀，我最好就称它为未出生的婴儿。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Spotted fever in purples for example, which we call measles, was a significant cause of death as was the plague, which we don't have anymore, thank goodness.

拿紫色斑疹热作为例子,我们也把这种病称作麻疹,它是导致死亡的主要原因,就好像瘟疫,而现在不会再这样了,感谢上帝

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Why would anyone ever risk one's life for ? one's country or a cause just to help other people, people that we don't know and probably will never know?

为什么人人都要为自己的国家或者,去救人的缘由而冒险，并且这个人我们不认识,可能永远也不会认识？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Parties... I mean they're pretty good. Sometimes they're for a cause,

派对……它们挺好的。有时候是为了慈善，

派对很好玩 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

because you know that they'll use it for a good cause.

因为你知道他们会妥善地使用这笔钱。

不做善事的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So the Romans, for example, outlawed volunteer fire departments, in local places, because they were afraid that volunteer fire departments could be a place where locals, especially maybe lower-class locals, could get together and then start gossiping about what they could do to cause trouble for the Romans.

所以罗马人会，比如，会驱逐当地志愿消防部门，因为他们担心志愿消防部门,会成为当地人，尤其是下层阶级集会的场所，在那谋划如何,给罗马人制造麻烦。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

All that Simmias needs to cause problems for Socrates' argument is the claim that harmony is invisible and harmony can be destroyed.

西米亚斯为苏格拉底的论证,带来问题的只需要是,和声是无形的,但是可以毁灭。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选