Its direct relationship with the thing that's most closely adjacent to it somehow either through similarity or dissimilarity can never be a relationship of identity.

符号和实物之间的关系,即使是最接近的事物,是通过相似处和不同处建立的,但是这不是一种永恒的关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

This is very simple but it's a great way to ask about a specific category among many different categories.

这是个非常简单的句型，但它在询问不同种类中某一特定类型的事物时是非常理想的句型。

What kind of 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Now, I think it is plausible to suggest that unlike the case of chess-playing computers, we don't yet have machines that feel things.

现在,我想我们有理由认为,与象棋计算机的例子不同,我们现在还没有能感觉事物的机器

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Where other peoples have seen sameness and continuity, the Greeks and the heirs of their way of thinking, have tended to notice disjunctions and to make distinctions.

别的民族看事物的统一性和连续性,希腊人传承传统思想,看到的多是事物的不同点,进行比较

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But it's a different way of approaching things.

但这是研究事物的一种不同方式。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

So I am willing to introduce these ideas but A, because it's not my training and people who are focusing on cultural differences will do a much better job than I do; and second, because what I hope to look into is the universal, things are common across cultures.

所以我想介绍这些观点，但是首先，因为这不是我的专业,研究文化差异的人会比我做得更好;,其次，因为我所希望研究的是普遍事物，不同文化中普遍的东西。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

A food frequency--by the way, you also have the issue of whether the particular twenty-four hours that a person is interviewed is representative of their diet overall, because you can imagine how much your food intake varies from day to day.

食物摄取频率,顺便说下,还有一个问题,就是在选取的24小时里,测试者,是不是对总体有代表性,因为你可以想象,每天事物的摄入量都是不同的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

There's a lot of art, a lot of different things you can see. It's just really nice.

那里有很多艺术，你可以看见很多不同的事物。它真的很美。

在梅可姆公园 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

People really have different ideas.

不同的人，对事物有不同的见解。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

and I can see so many different things around the world.

可以看到世界上很多不同的事物。

耐克设计师 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

How can individuals who are biologically autonomous, who judge and see matters very differently from one another, who can never be sure whether they trust one another, ? how can such individuals accept a common authority?

在生理上独立的个人，可以从不同角度,判断和看待事物的个人，永远不可能知道他们是否能互相信任的个人，这些个体如何才能接受一个相同的权力制约呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And I wanted to try something different.

于是我想尝试一些不同的事物。

怡人的的汉普斯特德 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So that we can talk about things being beautiful to varying degrees, but we never come across beauty itself in the actual empirical world.

我们可以探讨,事物的不同程度的美丽,但是我们从不在现实世界中,直接碰到"美丽"这个东西

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But for all that, they're separate things.

但总的来说,它们依旧是不同的事物

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