But what's interesting with these cases is you couldn't have predicted ahead of time that they would be heroes.

但这些例子所表明的就是,你不可能提前预知,他们会成为英雄

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

All right. So let's test what we, in fact, know about the photoelectric effect, and before we do that actually, we're going to calculate what we would predict, so when we do the demo it will be meaningful and we can tell whether we're successful or not.

好的，我们来测试一些，我们实际上懂了,多少光电效应的东西，在我们做测试之前，我们先算一下我们能预知什么，这样我们做的测试会很有意义,并且也知道我们是否成功了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Everyone who's thinking, I don't know whether I'll be rich or poor, so I would like to have a world in which risks are shared.

每一个会思考的人都会想到，我无法预知自己会富有还是贫穷，那么还是生活在能够摊薄风险的世界更好。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And I could go recall from right above here on the left side of your brain, right in the premium of the cortex to predict exactly that key.

我可以唤起你大脑的右侧,即大脑皮层的前部分，准确地预知到这个键盘。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

When Milton opens Lycidas with that phrase, "Yet once more," one of the things that he's telling the reader is that ; yet once more he'll be making the same argument for unreadiness; the same argument for nervous anticipation that he'd made a number of times before.

当弥尔顿用那句“然而再一次的“开始的篇章时“,他要告诉读者的是,他会再一次的对诗中的迟疑作出相同的论述;,和他之前无数次作出的,关于不安的预知的，一成不变的论述。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Now, let me just make the last point I want to make about this, and that's that because language is material, it has form, it has both closedness and possibility, it's susceptible to the workings of craft, it's also unpredictable. Tosses mobius strip on floor.

让我说关于此事的最后一个观点吧，正因为语言是物质的，它有固定模式，它没有尽头又充满可能，它易受,工艺品的影响，它同时也是不可预知的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And if you are looking at a keyboard, we can predict in the real time very rapidly that beat your very single finger typing speed, exactly the letters you like to type and hit, therefore provide a communication mechanism that Christopher Reeve and those similar with him can benefit from.

如果你在看电脑键盘，你可以十分快速地,实时预知自己手指敲击键盘的速度，预知你想录入的字母，这样便为克里斯托弗·里夫,和其他你说熟悉的人提供了一种沟通机制，使他们从中受益。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选