it was a small seminar-- I had groups of students proposing two novels actually for the end of the syllabus, and the exercise gets you to think very hard about what you think this period is all about.

是以小组研讨课的方式进行-,几组学生提出两本小说,作为教学大纲上最后一本读物，这样做的练习的目的是,让你去思考这个时期的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The first thing I'll say is, when you have a business that's changing very rapidly, if you have five or six meetings a year, it's incredibly hard for somebody on a board to know a whole lot about your business.

我首先要说的是，你的公司发展很快时，如果你每年开五，六次会，董事们会很为难,知道整个公司的情况。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

If you go to the dining hall you know, the portions-- one person serves themselves this much of a food and another serves themselves another, and then when you go to a restaurant there are variations on how much you get served of things, and so it's very hard to estimate portions for people.

如果你去食堂,摄入量是指,一个人吃了自己的那部分食物,或其他人吃的他们的那一部分,当你去餐厅,每次吃多少是变化的,因此估算每个人的摄入量是很难的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

just being able to keep saying from a person's perspective which is very hard to see when you get very tense and very defensive. And it's just so good for me to have have someone like Saed especially with Saed personally, just to have that gate.

就是能够,从一个个人的角度聊问题,而如果你很紧张就很难做到这一点,很有戒备心的时候就很难，所以我能够,有Saed是非？牡？,有这扇门。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选