The group recommended that human life must not be risked simply to send equipment into space.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

There is no way to compensate or punish someone for murder, it simply means forfeiture of one's own life.

谋杀者没有办法补偿或者受罚，只能以自己的生命为代价。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It was a complete waste of time, unless the goal in life was simply to pester the user for some input.

刚才的时间就完全浪费了，除非那个唯一的目的,是简单地纠缠用户索要一些输入。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Marchers from all walks of life were united in their belief that the current global economic system was simply not working and change was urgently needed.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

He was simply a youth tremendously excited with life and though he was a con man he was only conning because he wanted so much to live and get involved with people who would otherwise pay no attention to him.

狄恩属于那种对生活充满激情的年轻人,虽然他还是个很自信的骗子,这是因为生活中他希望得到的东西太多了,他希望能引起人们的注意。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"I am sure she would have restated it, but if you look in the entire sweep of the essay that she wrote, what is clear is that she was simply saying that her life experiences will give her information about the struggles and hardships that people are going through, that will make her a good judge,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

He simply would have plunged ahead into life as though he had freedom, even though he was too stupid to recognize that it was an illusion.

他自然会好像是自由的一样一头扎入生活中，即便他太愚笨而看不出这只是个幻想。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It had established Athens as a mighty and redoubtable naval power and it created an unprecedented level of artistic and cultural life even today known simply as Periclean Athens.

建立了雅典强大且令人敬畏的海军强权,而且催生了史无前例的,璀璨艺术与文化生活,甚至今日仍以伯里克利斯的雅典闻名。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

the word "Jew" isn't something we can really historically use until about this time , so most of our period we're going to be talking about the ancient Israelites to become an Israelite, you simply joined the Israelite community, you lived an Israelite life, you died an Israelite death.

关于Jew这词历史上,直到公元前500年才开始用，所以我们的大多数时间,将会讨论古以色列人,成为一个以色列人，你只要加入以色列人社区，按以色列人方式生活，按其方式安葬。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But, he says, if he tries to persuade people of the goodness and the justice of his way of life on simply rational grounds alone, to persuade them that the examined life alone is worth living, he says he will not be believed.

但他表示，假设他试图说服,良善及正直之士,相信其生活方式的作法,仅在简单的理性基础上，或者试图说服他们,经反省的生命才值得活，他说他们也仍然不会相信他。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

At any rate, the reader must regard it as creative writing rather than simply a record of life."

无论从哪一层面来看，把它当作是极具创想的作品,而不单单是生活的记录“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选