I can't go down to the registrar and say, you know, I'd really like to do it at another time.
我不能去和登记的人说,我想要换个时间。
You can say "this is where I am right now and this is what I'm going to do very, very soon."
你可以说,“这是我现在的情况,而那就是我很快就要做的事情。”
You don't have to do this for Wednesday but let's say for next Monday, and that is: I'd like you to memorize a short poem by Yeats or by Frost, either one.
你们不用今天做,下星期一吧:,我想让你们背一首短诗,叶芝或者弗罗斯特的都行。
You can call your broker and say, I'd like to short stock number one and what the broker will do is borrow the shares on your behalf and sell them and then you own negative shares.
你可以打电话给你的经纪人说,我要做空一号股票,经纪人就会在你的名下赊入这些股票,然后卖掉,这样你就拥有数量为负的股票了。
And so the next thing you do is you call up a journal and say I've discovered a fundamental law of nature.
下一步你做的事是打电话给一个杂志,并宣称你发现了一条自然界的基础定律。
So, I'm not going to come around and say, did you do your homework?
我不会围着你们说,做作业了没?
Remind you, that's not to say that I myself do believe that there will be a Judgement Day, and on that day God will reassemble the bodies.
提醒大家,我并不是说,我自己相信,有审判日的到来,那天上帝会重组所有肉体。
And then later on the kid's going to say, " "I want to do it again" and you say no and the kid keeps asking because you've put it, well, put it as in a psychological way, not the way the behaviorists would put it.
这样以后,孩子还是会说,“我还想和你一起睡,你说不行,然后孩子就不停的问你,从心理学的角度来看,这是因为,你并未采取行为主义者们会采取的方法。
But you don't want unnecessarily come out and say, "I really like to do this."
你可能不想冒冒然地说“我真想这么做”。
You divide and you find it's 9 and you say, "Okay, I know what to do with Newton's laws."
除一下,会得到 9,然后你说,"好了,我会用牛顿定律了"
So it's a tough economy and you'd say, "Well geez, I want to do a startup. Is there going to be an investment out there? Well geez, I want to sell to customers and they're going to need to buy equipment to do things, or geez I want to appeal to advertisers, and there's got to be a consumer demand out there."
因此经济愈发不景气,你们会说“天哪,我想要卷土重来,会有人给我投资吗?,我想向人们出售产品,他们会需要买些设备来做事的,哦天哪,我想向广告商招标,总会有消费者需求的“
Alright. I have to do this!" And then you'll say,
好。我必须做了!然后你会说,
Or you could say "I wonder if" and mean that you really do wonder,
或者你可以用“I wonder if”来表达你的确不是很清楚。
and say "I won't", which of course means that you will not do something.
用 “I won't” 来表示并不打算做某事。
Now, you might say, "I could be a poet and what does that have to do with finance?"
也许你会问,我想做个诗人,这跟金融有关系吗
Most companies do splits because that might close the-- you might have been thinking about investing in Google but you could still--you could just say, I want to buy ten shares or five shares and the broker will do it for you, but they might charge a higher commission.
大部分公司会分割,因为这样会关闭...,比如你想投资谷歌,但是你可以说,我想买十股,或者五股,经纪人会照办,但是会索取更高的佣金
And this is what linguists do for a living so if you hear me talking about this and say, "I want to spend the next forty years of my life studying that," you should become a linguist.
这就是语言学家们研究的问题,如果你听了我的讲解然后说,"我想用我的余生来研究这些东西",那你该去做一个语言学家
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