Sure. Why not? A few of us were leaving.You could take their place.

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Why not think about creating positive situations ? that will help us lead happier, more moral lives?

为什么不创造积极的环境,让我们获得更快乐更讲道德的生活？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

This is why he tells us parenthetically that marriage must not be called a defilement.

这就是为什么他顺便地告诉我们,婚姻不能被称为肮脏。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So if it's so easy to imagine that for the rat, why not for us?

即然能简单地想老鼠，为何不能推及人？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Again,getting rid of the negative does not guarantee us the positive, which is why already in the 1940s, wrote that most men lead lives of quiet desperation.

再强调一次，摆脱消极,不能保证我们变得积极，因此早在19世纪40年代，认为，大多数人都活在沉默的压抑中。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Finally though, the point that he makes is a terrific one, all of these things seem natural to us but the reason why they seem natural is not because they are in some sense necessary or logical truths.

最后，尽管，他表达得很好，所有这些对我们而言很自然,但我们认为他们自然的原因,并非他们是必要的,或是逻辑真理。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So if the firms wanted to make more money, the only thing they could do is they could sign an agreement saying, why don't each of us produce not our Cournot quantity, but produce half monopoly profits.

所以如果你们想多赚钱,唯一能做的就是签协议,我们不要按古诺产量生产了,各自生产垄断利润的一半多好呢

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

It's seeking to ascertain the meaning of events to draw larger philosophical, ideological conclusions from the events of history, and to point to the larger purpose or design of history, not to say just what happened, but to say why it happened and what it means for us today that it did happen.

它致力于查明事件的意义,得出哲学性的思想性的结论，从历史事件中，并且指出历史图景中的宏观目的，不说发生了什么，而阐明为什么它会发生,而它发生了对于今天的我们有何意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Why not? These guys that have gone out, let us say to Syracuse, they are your people, they have relatives back home, they have friends back home, it is natural--oh by the way, they're accustomed to worship the gods in the same way that the Corinthians do.

为什么呢,虽然移民已经离家,比如说他们去了锡拉库萨,但他们在家乡有仍有亲朋好友,这很常见,顺道一提,他们敬神的方式,跟科林斯人相同

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选