But, anyway, it seemed like an awful thing to do when they're bringing these falcons and hawks who were imported to intercept these people.

可是,不管怎么说,为了阻拦那些人送信,就用隼和鹰来捕杀鸽子的话,还是显得太不厚道了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

And she would intercept them as they came across the rickety bridge, or the low bridge, and she would ask them a few questions and ?" conclude with, "Can you write me a story? " You would help me out with my experiment if you'd just write a little story right now."

她会拦住他们,当他们分别横过摇晃的桥和低矮平稳的桥时，她会问一些问题,最后一个问题是“能为我写一个故事吗“,我将解决实验中遇到的瓶颈,如果你能立即给我写一个小故事“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Yeah. Suppose I choose it right down there I guess 0. Well, the tangent there will not even have an x intercept. So I'm really going to be dead in the water.

好，如果我选猜想数为0，好吧,这个点的切线甚至和x轴都没交点,所以在这儿这一原则,真的不起作用了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

That's a choice, and that choice turns out to be very interesting and really important, because if you connect these two points together, you get a straight line that has to intercept the x-axis at some point.

在这一选择下,我们会发现一件非常有趣，而且极其重要的事,当你把这两点用直线连接起来，你会发现这条直线,将与x轴在某点相交。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

That's called the regression line and the intercept is called alpha--there's alpha.

这就是回归直线,这个是截点,用alpha表示...这里是alpha

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The alpha is just the intercept of this curve.

lpha是截距

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选