The similes enable us to see something about the story that the rest of the poem doesn't enable us to see.

这些明喻使得我们能够深入了解一些,诗歌的剩余部分所不能让我们预见的事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We posit--or the fans of souls posit-- the existence of souls so as to explain something that needs explaining about us.

我们 或者灵魂论的拥护者们假设,灵魂是存在的,这就能解释一些我们自身不解的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But I also have a weakness for the less common mental disorders that I think tell us something really interesting about mental life.

但我对那些不太常见的心理障碍,也并不是非常了解,不过我倒认为这些不常见的心理障碍,却向我们展示了心理活动有意思的一面

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

What kind of methodology for reading would allow us to have something to say about that?

怎么样去阅读,才能让我们能够回答这个问题？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

One might have to do with where it's from and how it's made so that might tell us a little bit about whether something should be defined as a food.

一个是关于食品源自何处,怎么生产的,这会给我们一些参考,去判断何为食品

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The second law is going to define entropy, and is going to tell us about the direction of time, something that conceptually we, clearly, understand but is going to put a mathematical foundation on which way does time go.

第二定律定义了熵，它告诉我们,时间的流向，虽然我们清楚地,知道这个概念,但还是要为时间流动的方向,建立一个数学基础。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Now that's a tricky word for us because later in the semester we're going to be reading about something called the New Historicism, and the New Historicism actually has nothing to do with what Gadamer is ; objecting to in this form of historicism; so we will return to the New Historicism in that context.

这个词对我们来说比较具有迷惑性,因为这学期我们还会读到,新历史主义，新历史主义,与伽达默尔所反对的历史主义,没有任何关系;,那个时候我们再来讨论新历史主义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Book I that we spoke about last time really in a way tells us something about the you might say almost the metaphysics of Aristotle's politics.

我们上次讲到的第，I，册,在很多方面真的就是,在告诉我们关于亚里士多德,政治理念的形上学。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Well, the dualist says, "That shows us that we have to believe that there's something non-physical about us.

二元论者认为,这表明我们必须相信,人有非物质性的一面

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Each one of us has to think about this from the first person perspective or something like that.

让我们大家,都以第一人称思考。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And even six-month-olds are sensitive to these rudimentary facts of arithmetic, telling us something about their mathematical knowledge, but also telling us something about that they expect things to remain when they're out of sight.

即便六个月大的婴儿,对算术的基础知识已经相当敏感,向我们展示了婴儿所具有的数学知识,但也同时告诉了我们,婴儿在看不到物体时,仍然会认为物体依然存在

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

There's something--For many of us, there's something horrifying about the thought that something as amazing as us, as exalted and valuable as us, could end up something as lowly and unimportant as a piece of rotting flesh.

有一些，对我们许多人来说，这个了不起如我们的事物,尊贵有价值如我们的事物，最后以一堆腐肉结尾的想法是可怕的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The fact that we've got free will is something that most of us take for granted about ourselves.

我们拥有自由意志这一事实,被大多数人认为理所应当

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The thought is that there's something about us that needs explaining.

其思路是,存在一些有关我们自身的亟待解释的事物

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