"I do not accept a United States of America that is second place."

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

So, the radical idea here is you might not know what--why you do what you do and this is something we accept for things like visual perception.

由此引出的一个偏激的观点,你根本不知道自己为何要这么去做,这有点像我们获得视觉感知的过程。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

We may not accept their answers and it's very likely that we do not but their questions are often put with a kind of unrivaled clarity and insight.

我们可能不接受他们的解答,我们可能接受才怪,但他们的问题常隐含一种,无敌的清晰与独到见解。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility Ca recognition on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task."

VOA: special.2009.01.24

It is easy when one is young and impressionable, the pope said,to be swayed by peers to accept ideas and values that do not belong to Jesus.

VOA: standard.2010.04.18