It doesn't matter what that letter says-- I can crumple it up and throw it in the wastebasket.

不管信上怎么说,我都可以揉成团扔进垃圾箱了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But if I join a fraternity and they pour cow poop on my head and make me stand in the rain for a month wearing pantyhose while they throw rocks at me I then think--after it I think "God, I went through a lot of stuff to get into this fraternity.

但如果我加入之前，他们要往我头上泼牛粪,要我穿着女内裤在雨中站一个月,他们还朝我扔石头,事后我就会想,”为了加入这个兄弟会我吃了不少苦头“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now, you used to have-- there was a very famous cover of The New Yorker in which you had a map of the United States as seen from New York, and where you had New York, and then you had this sort of large ditch that finally--then, Los Angeles was half a football throw away, and everything in the middle was just sort of desert, basically.

现在,你们曾见过,这是纽约客杂志一张十分有名的封面,这张地图表现的是从纽约的角度看全美国,纽约在这里,这是一条极长的鸿沟,最终,洛杉矶有半个橄榄球场那么远了,图片中心的所有东西基本就是沙漠

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Whatever you think those are. Here, you might imagine different people disagreeing about-- oh, but throw in something--but if what you want to do is write the great American novel, then you've got the experience of staying up late at night not knowing how to make the plot work out, crushing pieces of paper and throwing them away.

你能想到的都在里面，可能有人不同意-,插入某某东西，比如你想,创作最伟大的美国小说，于是你获得熬夜的体验,纠结于如何构建情节，撕碎稿纸，扔在一边。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If, on the other hand, it is what Gadamer would call a "bad prejudice"-- that is to say, some aspect of my subjectivity that nothing could possibly be done - with in thinking about and interpreting the text-- then you throw it out.

如果情况不是这样，而是Gadamer所说的“不好的偏见“,也就是说我主观的想法,解读文本,并不能有任何效果-,你可以不用理会它。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选