It goes without saying that there is something outlandish, to say the least, about this.
他并没有说什么古怪的东西,对这些他尽量少提。
In many ways, to say the least.
在许多方面,至少可以这么说
And in this case we're going to look at silicone, and we'll say if you can point out to me which requires the least amount of energy.
这次我们要做的是关于硅的,我们来看看大家是不是,能够为我指出那一项需要消耗的能量最少。
That's why I've tried to say if there are souls, at least that opens the door to the possibility that we will survive our death.
这就是我一直在说的,如果灵魂存在,至少这为我们在死后继续活着,创造了可能性
So the problem here, roughly, is given, a number of cities, and say the cost of traveling from city to city by airplane, what's the least cost round trip that you can find?
基本上就是一个这样的问题,你被告知了一些城市,以及在城市之间坐飞机旅行的花费,那一条是你们能找到最短往返路径?
So did you approach Professor Katz and say "we have this idea we really would like to promote"? At least a discussion and the academic study of what it looks like.
那你是主动联系Katz教授,跟他说,我有这样一个想法,我们很想推行么?,至少讨论,并且做了学术上的研究,了解课程的内容。
.. So I'm going to restrict myself, at least when I think about it, to versions that say, it's the life of a person per se that's valuable.
所以我会坚持,至少是对我来说,我会坚持,作为人活着的本身是有价值的这种观点。
A kind of consequence of this is if we're thinking about a multi-electron atom, which we'll get to in a minute where electrons can shield each other from the pull of the nucleus, we're going to say that the electrons in the s orbitals are actually the least shielded.
这样的一个后果就是,如果我们考虑一个多电子原子,我们等会就会讨论到它,电子会互相,屏蔽原子核的吸引,我们说s轨道电子,更不容易被屏蔽。
It's natural to talk that way, but if we want belief in the soul to help us hold out the possibility at least that there might be life after death, then I think we need to actually say that strictly speaking, it's not that a person is a soul plus a body.
这说起来很轻松,如果我们想要寄托于,相信灵魂的存在,而让死后能够继续活着有据可依,那么我们需要一个严格的说法,不是说一个人是灵魂加肉体
Well again, I can say the words, but when I try to imagine that possibility and take it seriously, at least speaking personally, it doesn't--it doesn't hold up.
我能说出这种假设,但当我想象那种可能性,并严肃考究时,起码就我而言,它也站不住脚。
I mean some of you may want to say look the person lecturing to you now has at least a fair bit of his hair. He's got a beard.
我的意思是你们可能有人会说,现在讲课的人至少,还有点头发,有胡子。
Somewhere in The Great Gatsby, which was my Tom Sawyer when I was twelve, the youthful narrator remarks that everybody suspects himself of having at least one of the cardinal virtues and he goes on to say that he thinks his, bless his heart, is honesty.
在Great,Gatsby的某个地方,我表哥在那,当时我12岁,那个年轻的叙事者谈论道,每个人都怀疑他,有至少一种基本的美德,他继续说,他认为他的内心是诚实的。
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