I don't know a word of Russian, and so I actually try to avoid using the rather well-known Russian equivalents for these terms because I feel like an idiot.

我不懂俄语，所以我不用俄语读,而就用这个英语中通行的俄语替代词,这样感觉是不是挺傻的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

This little felt thing there is just to avoid too much friction from building up with the plastic or to keep it slightly separated from the case, but that's it. That's all there was to those things called floppy disks.

这种毡制品的目的是避免,由塑料组成所产生的摩擦力,或者保持稍微的距离，这就是我们要说的,软盘的全部内容。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

You would, to avoid the horrors of genocide, you would crash into the five and kill them?

为了避免骇人听闻的种族灭绝，你打算直接开上去把这五个人撞死吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

They knew nothing of hate and fear, and strove instinctively to avoid all passion.

她们不了解怨恨，本能地抵触激情，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Now we have the dot notation to avoid name conflicts.

现在我们要使用圆点标记法。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

We need to avoid the temptation, in many ways understandable as it might be, to airbrush or sanitize Aristotle, to make him seem more politically correct for modern readers.

我们要避开这个诱惑，虽然在很多方面看来，他可能在经过喷雾与消毒之后较易理解，亚里士多德,也许会对现代的读者变得比较政治正确。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Presumably, a part of his brain quickly mobilized his faculties to scope out how to flee and how to take steps to avoid a vulnerable predicament in the future.

假定，他的一部分大脑,快速调动身体各部位,思考如何逃跑，如何采取措施,避免将来易受伤害的窘状。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now many of us are not investors or at least would like to avoid investing with myself included But in the most, this is the most ubiquitous economic decision out there.

我们中许多人都不是投资者,或至少像我一样不想涉及到投资行业里面,但在大多数情况下，这却是经济决策中最普遍的。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

Just want to avoid obvious ties.

可以避免明显的平局情况

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

In the American Civil War,there was a draft, but you could avoid it by hiring somebody to take your place, if you were rich enough.

在美国内战期间，曾有过强制征兵，但是你可以让人代替你，如果你足够有钱的话。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So, you would avoid paying dividends and, therefore, switch to share repurchase as your method.

你应该避免分配股利,因此改为股票回购

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Hobbes believed, on the other hand, that the overriding human fact, the overriding motivation of human behavior, is largely negative, not the desire to do good, but the desire to avoid some evil.

另一方面，霍布斯认为，人类最主要的行为，人行为的最主要的动机，在很大程度上是负面的，并不是为了做善良的事，只不过是为了避免罪恶的发生。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The slave trade revolving around tobacco or cotton or coffee or sugar would tend to mix slaves and laborers from different language backgrounds, in part deliberately, so as to avoid the possibility of revolt.

为了获得烟草,棉花,咖啡,或糖块的奴隶交易,会将来自不同语言背景的奴隶,和劳动者们混在一起,这也在某种程度上,谨慎地避免了可能的造反

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But for Hobbes, we enter into society not in order to fulfill or perfect our rational nature, but rather to avoid the greatest evil, namely death or fear of death, at the hands of others.

但是霍布斯认为，我们进入社会,不是为了实现或完善我们理智的本性，倒不如说是为了避免巨大的罪恶而已，也就是死亡或对死亡的恐惧，掌握在别人手里。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And blind here is a technical term meaning she had no idea what the baby saw, and the point about this is to avoid either intentional or unintentional sort of trying to get the answer you want.

这里的盲性是个术语,意味着主试完全不知道婴儿看到了什么,这样做的目的在于,避免主试因想要得到自己所想要的结果,而进行的有意或无意的尝试

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So the other guy is pricing below costs, the way which I avoid making losses is to set my price above his price.

所以另一家公司定价低于成本,我想要避免损失的方法是,将我的价格设定得比它高

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选