Somebody that passed away, you take them to the cemetery or do something.

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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

I'm not free to take my own life or to sell my self into slavery or to give to somebody else arbitrary absolute power over me.

不能随意自杀,或出售自己成为奴隶,或给别人绝对权力，任意主宰我。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Take somebody who perhaps suffers from some sort of compulsion to wash his hands.

就拿某些有洗手强迫症的人做例子。

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That's not a scientific term but the same psychologists were interested in studying how quickly you can-- if at all how long does it take to figure out somebody's sexual orientation?

这不是一个科学术语,这两位心理学家也很有兴趣研究,你能多快…,如果对方真的是同性恋,就能猜出他们的性取向？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And a lot of the strikes that you see in high schools and in-- I better get to my lecture,but-- you see in high schools and even in middle schools, have to do with the State,somebody saying, well we're going to take away two-hundred teachers in your department, or we're going to maintain a curriculum that doesn't seem to make any sense.

在高中里可以看到很多罢课,我最好回到正题,但还是再讲一点,在高中,甚至在初中有很多罢课,为了反对政府的某项规定,比如说要在这个系减少两百个教师,或者主张一份,完全不合理的课程安排

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Under the law of nature, I'm not free to take somebody else's life or liberty or property, nor am I free to take my own life or liberty or property.

根据自然法，我不能随意剥夺他人的生命，自由或财产，也不能随意剥夺自己的生命，自由或财产。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

It was astonishing enough that somebody-- but perhaps understandable--that somebody in that situation would decide to take a class on death and then have himself, submit himself, to my getting up here week after week, there's no prospect for an afterlife, it's a good thing that we're all going to die.

某个，某个处于那种情况下的人-,会决定上一门有关死亡的课,然后一周接一周地让自己来上我的课,忍受我讲的没有来世，我们所有人都会死是好事，这是足够让人震惊的，但也许也是可以理解的。

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