But to find a common denominator where we can all talk, where we don't find ourselves divided by religion or culture anymore, because we've got down something so essential.

我们所找的共通之处可以使我们彼此交流，让我们发现我们,不再被宗教与文化分隔开来，因为我们已经获得了最本质的东西。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But here I'm doing the exact same thing except my number here 13 0 in the bottom in the denominator is 13.0.

但是这里我在做一个同样的计算,除了在下面的分母是。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

If they both go up by the same proportion, then numerator and denominator go up by the same amount, so there's no change.

如果大家都上升了相同幅度,分子和分母同比例增大,则没有变化

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I appreciate particularly the idea of human rights, because it is meant to get a round culture, and particularly a round religion, to find those common denominators, hopefully not the lowest denominator that's just ethical washout. It doesn't mean anything.

我尤其赞赏人权的观点，因为它是要构建一个全面的文化，尤其是一个全面完整的宗教，以此来寻求人类共通的地方，希望别是最低层次的共通点,否则只会是道德的失败，没有任何意义。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Then, I bring the elephant and I pull the spring by the same amount and I find the acceleration of the elephant and the denominator is obviously the mass of the elephant.

然后我再找来大象,用相同的力去拉弹簧,大象就具有了加速度,很明显,分母就是大象的质量

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Now, of course, there are denominator issues here because we started with a much higher base rate than these other countries, but if you think about the size of the populations there, the number of people who are going to become diabetic in the next twenty-five years is really very frightening.

现在,当然这里存在着分母的问题,我国的增长基数比其他国家要大得多,因为一旦考虑到人口总量,在未来25年成为糖尿病人的人数,就非常非常的惊人了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选