if we can't think what system it belongs to, that's tantamount to saying we really don't know what it is.

我们就不知道它从属于哪个符号系统，我们就不能认识它了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Milton's infusing this passage with a powerful sense of -- I don't know, what can we call it? -- of gender nonconformity and cultural relativity.

弥尔顿在这段中注入了一个很强烈的思想，我也不清楚，我们怎么叫这种思想呢？这种性别的不一致和文化的相对性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

You can bring any calculator you want, we don't actually have restrictions for calculator types here, but what you can't do, is you can't program any relevant chemical or information about constants in there.

你可以带你想用的任何一种计算器，我们并不限制计算器的类型，但是有一点是不允许的，那就是你不能使用编程的功能来记录,相关的化学常数或其它信息。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Don't talk about what we can sense.

不要谈我们所能感知到的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So let me just return once again to the way in which sign systems are intelligible because lots of- there are going to be lots of moments in a course like this in which what we seem to be saying is that, "Oh, we can't know anything," or "We don't know what we know," or "How do we know what we know?"

现在让我们回到,怎样理解符号系统的话题上-,这个学期你们会有很多时候觉得,天哪，我们什么也认识不了“,或者，哎，我们其实并不了解我们以为理解的事“

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