If markets were perfectly efficient, David Swensen could not have done what he did.

假设市场完全有效,大卫·斯文森就不可能有现在的成绩

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Or you could also use the "I have" pattern negatively to show that you do not possess something.

当然，你也可以用“I have”句型的否定形式来表示你并没有某些东西。

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He argued that monotheism and polytheism are so radically distinct that one could not possibly have evolved from the other.

他认为一神论和多神论是截然不同的,不可能是一个由另一个进化而来。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And if you could change the gene and make people not gay in the womb should have been done.

如果人们能够改变这种基因,让同性恋们在母体内就改变性取向,那么这种认定就应该进行。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

By the way, Mr. Newton did not have math guys he could go to.

顺便说一下,牛顿先生可没有数学外援

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

So they have to be engineered to be inert so that they can be safely inside a system and there's not every material you could pick would have that property.

缝合线必须是惰性的,以便确保植入人体后的安全性,不是随便哪个材料都能做到这一点

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

You could have a corpse, and that's clearly not a person.

一具尸体显然不是一个人

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There's some space up in heaven where all the unborn babies are that will live in the future and, unfortunately, they're not able to have a town meeting; but, let's suppose they could.

想象一下在天堂的某处,所有尚未出生但即将诞生的小婴儿们在那儿，可惜的是，他们开不了人民大会吧;,不过，我们假设这能成真。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I don't think so. I would rather have a system personally that I could give money to exactly those sections of the government I support and not just blanket support of it.

应该不会，我个人更希望有个机制,让我能把钱给那些我所支持的个别部门,而不是给所有政府部门。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The thing is still not dominated and we could still have done exactly the same analysis, and actually you can see I'm not very far off in the numbers I made up, but things are not perfectly symmetric.

这虽然不能成为劣势策略,但我们还是能得出一样的分析结果,实际上这和我编的数字相差也不是很远,凡事并不总是绝对对称的嘛

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

This was something we could not predict using Lewis structures, but we can predict using MO theory that we have a radical species here.

这是我们从Lewis结构里不能预测的，但我们可以用分子轨道理论,预测自由基。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

One can assume safely that Aristotle would have received tenure in any number of departments at Yale, whereas Socrates could not have applied to have been a teaching assistant.

你可以放心的认定,亚里士多德将可以,在耶鲁任何部门得到终身教授职，但苏格拉底却可能,连个教学助理的位置都申请不到。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And this is so that they could have more possible user IDs not because they have billions and billions of users but surely people create accounts to lead accounts and they don't necessarily have to reuse numbers this way.

这样他们就能有很多的用户ID了,倒不是因为他们有成千上万的用户,而是创建账户来引导其他账户,其实他们完全没有必要以这种方式复用。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

We don't really have a clue yet, or not much of a clue, as to how you could even so much as begin to-- it's not that merely that we don't have the details worked out.

毫无头绪,或者说,无从下手,你如何在这种情形下开个头,我们不只是不知道细节如何

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So, you probably don't want to pick any point down here, because you're not getting anything by picking a point down there because you could have a better point by just moving it up here.

你不会选择这里以下的任意一点，因为你的回报不是最优的,上面这一点会使你有更好的回报。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But that's not the only thing we could have assumed.

但这还不是这个假设的全部内容

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选