So it might be something like that, a tiny little something that one would set down like a couple of elements.

所以创作的支点可能是类似这些的，很小很小的事情，作者会把它们列出来,就像一系列元素一样。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

A supplement, he points out, is something that either completes something that isn't complete or adds to something that already is complete.

他指出，一个补充物，或者是补充了不完整的事物,或者补充了已经完整的事物。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But it was not something that I thought and it was not something that my ego was really bound up with.

但这并非我的初衷,也并非我内心追求所在,也并非我内心追求所在。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

With "Mowing" as the example, I said that in Frost, meaning is always something made, something the poet works on and works for.

用“割草“做例子，我说过对弗罗斯特来说，意义总是一些事情体现出的，是一些诗人一直致力于的，一直追求的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

We transition to actually real world applications later on like a compression-- how do you take a huge amount of data ; and actually whittle it down into something more manageable; something that uses less of your disk space.

然后我们会讲生活中的应用程序,比方说压缩文件——,把大量的数据分解使其更易管理;,并占用尽量少的磁盘空间。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And actually, a question that might come up, I just explained, the sodium channel, you might say, well, how do potassium channels work then, because I can understand how you can filter something big out, but how do you filter out something small.

实际上，可能大家会问一个问题，我刚解释过，钠离子通道，你可以说，好吧，那么钾离子通道该如何起作用呢，因为我可以理解你是如何把大东西过滤掉的，但是你如何把小东西过滤掉呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So, you need some sort of property, something you can see, something you can measure, that tells you that heat has flowed.

所以，你需要某种性质，某种你能看到，能测量的东西，它会告诉你热量发生了流动。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

And in something like a consumer internet company like Facebook, that constant real time interaction and experimentation is something that the very best entrepreneurs do.

像脸谱网这样的,用户导向型的互联网公司，即时交流，不断试验,是企业家最佳的生财之道。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

If there's something worse about story number two, and I think it's pretty clear there is something worse, it's not the separation.

第二个故事又有什么更坏的地方呢，显而易见是有更坏的地方，不是分离本身。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The laugh is a lot like the "wow." It's that sound you make just because you're experiencing something, just because you're having a response to what's in front of you, something someone says.

这笑声很像“哇“这个字，是一种,因为正在经历某些事而发出的一种声音，作为你对面前发生的事或是，一些人说的话的反应。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

How can Milton know that he was really and truly called by God to be a great poet until he writes something - it's not a bad question - until he has something actually to show for his talent?

弥尔顿怎么知道他是不是真的被,上帝选中了去做一个伟大的诗人,除非他真的创作出点儿什么--这是一个不坏的问题,-直到他真有可以证明自己才能的作品？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Movements, organizations, societies whole newspapers came into existence, magazines came into existence to either eradicate something, to change something, or to build something.

运动,组织,社团,整个报纸业的诞生,以及杂志的诞生,无论是根除什么东西,改变什么东西,或者建立什么东西

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But there's something, i think there's something in that, but there's a little bit more going on here, what more is going on?

我觉得这里有别的原因,更深层次的原因会是什么呢

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

If we defined food differently: that it's something that nurtures the body, something found in nature, something that doesn't harm the environment-- there are a number of criteria one can apply to define a food-- then we might come up with a different definition than this, but this is the way the nutrition field generally looks at it.

如果我们给出不同的定义,滋养身体的物质,在自然界找到的物质,不会威胁到身体的物质,有很多标准可以拿出来定义食物,我们也许可以就此重新进行定义,但这就是营养学看待食物的方式

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

He's willing to acknowledge that there's always something of me in my interpretation, but it's a good something because after all I am mindful of the horizon of otherness.

他愿意承认,在解读中总是带有“我“的成分，但这些成分是好的,因为“我“毕竟是留心差异性的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And if something parochial is blinding you, that needs to die for something more cosmopolitan and broader and deeper to be reborn.

如果一些狭隘的想法使你被蒙蔽，这些想法就该死亡，从而让一些更开阔,更深刻，更具世界性的东西重生。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选