Because as we'll talk about next time, rates of depression are on the rise, rates of anxiety are on the rise, not just in this country, globally.

因为就像我们下次课会说到的那样，抑郁率呈上升趋势，焦虑率呈上升趋势，不只是在这个国家，是全球化的现象。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

By the same token, if literature has effects, it must have effects on someone, and this gives rise to the equally interesting and vexing question, "What is a reader?"

同样，如果文学史有影响的，它一定会对某些人产生影响，它也会引出一个同样有趣,而恼人的问题，“读者是谁？“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I would recite, whatever, the Articles of Confederation I would rise on my hind legs, quaking in my boots, and I would begin until I made a mistake, whereupon I would be castigated, berated, totally stripped of self-esteem by this monster who would that inflict the same pain on somebody else.

我会背，比如说，联邦条例,我会抬起我的后腿，它在靴子里颤抖，然后开始背，直到犯错，于是，我就会被批评严惩，自尊完全被这个怪物践踏了,他对其他人也会如此加注痛苦。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

On the one hand it's clearly good that humans rise above the animals and build cities and wear clothes and pursue the arts of civilization and develop bonds of love and duty and friendship the way that animals do not; these are the things that make humans like the gods in The Epic of Gilgamesh.

一方面，成为人类也未尝不是一件好事,人类优于动物，穿着衣服，用自己的双手建造城市,打造文明的生活方式，而爱和责任,把人类联结起来，这些是动物无法比拟的,在《吉尔伽美什史诗》中，这些特质让人类具有神性。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选