The right thing to do individually or collectively is to maximize, act in a way that maximizes the overall level of happiness.

于公于私，最正确的选择都该是,即为全方位地最大化地提升幸福。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

only to affect our local neighborhoods But what we do locally, act locally, think globally. -Right.

但这力量只能影响到当地社区,我们在本地所做的，着眼于本地行动，着眼于全球思考，-对。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Right? We always see something as something, and that is precisely the act of interpretation.

对吧？，我们只能将某物看做某物，这就是解读。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It won't be long before we're using these same kind of devices to both record--to test what's going on-- and to act in the right way and response.

相信不久以后,这个装置就可以同时记录和反馈,大脑的信号,并做出相应的回应

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Before justifying the act of stealing, you have to look at violating the right that we've already agreed exists, the right of self possession and the possession of, I mean, your own things.

在判定这个偷盗是否合法之前，你得首先看到,它侵犯了我们已经认同的权利，即自我拥有的权利，拥有自己东西的权利。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

That's right. That's an example, as we talked about in the last class, of the act of keeping records influencing the accuracy of the records, because you're prone to do things differently then what your typical eating might be because you're keeping the records.

对,如我们上节课所谈到的,这有个持续记录会影响记录准确性的例子,由于你不断进行记录,你更可能会吃与不同于平时的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act the state of Wisconsin enacted a Personal Liberty Law that said they were not going to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act and turn in fugitive slaves, and the justification was that it was their state's right to do so.

为了抵制逃亡奴隶法,威斯康辛州政府颁布了个人自由法,规定他们不会执行,逃亡奴隶法并交出逃奴,理由是,该怎么做是他们州的权利

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But Oedipa jumps right into these conventional roles, and in that act comes to know more about the world in a way that these men cannot.

而Oedipa则是深入了，这些传统的角色，通过这些，他以一种男人们，无法做到的方式,更多地了解了这个世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选