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

I mean, this is a really great place to do business, because almost regardless of what it is you do,

这里也是一个发展业务的好地方，因为不管你现在要做什么，

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It has traditional stories and legends, some quite fanciful, Whose goal it is to explain how and why something is what it is.

它讲述了一些传统故事，有一些还极具想象力，它们试图解释事物的形成方式及成因。

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Could Milton actually have believed that poetic success was in some way contingent on what it is that you do, or what it is you don't do, with your body?

他真的信,诗的成功是某种程度上取决于你对你的身体，做了什么或没做什么吗？

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Let us view justice in a city in order to help us understand what it is in an individual.

我们从城市来检视正义,以期帮助我们了解,其在个人之中彰显的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Well this third picture you can't probably see too much about but you probably recognize what it is, right?

第三张图可能你们没见过了,但你们能认出这是什么,对吧

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What it is about Baidu and the Chinese search market that's allowed Baidu to become much more successful than Google and Yahoo! in China?

是什么让百度在中国,比谷歌以及雅虎做得更成功？

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Well, what it is is easily enough explained despite the sort of difficulty and thorniness of the word.

虽然我们遇到过很多困难和挫折,但这个问题很容易解答。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And sometimes it's a matter of factors that you need to figure out what it is, and maybe it's that there's extra light in the room we don't know about.

而且有时候它是,需要计算的一个因素，有时候这个房间里可能有,我们未知的额外的光。

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Well, let's start by-- Plato starts by telling us, reminding us of what it is to remember something.

让我们从这里开始,柏拉图首先告诉我们,提醒我们什么是记起一件事情

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All right. So let me start again by reminding you what it is that was done last time.

好的,我们开始上课,先回顾下上节课的内容

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And this volume, temperature and pressure doesn't care how you got there. It is what it is.

另一个状态,也有一组确定的体积。

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Oh, there's a man at the store and now we have a loop where he is just looking through my inventory one at a time and reciting what it is I actually picked up.

商店里有一个人,现在我们有一个循环,通过这个循环他可以看到我的库存,然后显示出来我实际上都采摘了哪些水果。

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They tell us for instance that there is a difference between recognizing something in the sense that you could name it, and knowing what it is.

例如它们会让我们明白,在识别某物叫什么,与知道某物是什么之间,还是有所不同的

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I think they sort of really understand that maybe sometimes they see things to them they don't quite understand what it is because it's not familiar to them, but it's sort connect to your own life.

我认为他们,知道有时候,自己看到一些事物不理解,是因为,对那些事物不熟悉，但他们与你的生活相联系。

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Tell me what it is. Put it into words.

告诉我那是什么，说出来。

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