And I end up going back and doing unit testing anyway, to try and figure out why it doesn't work. So over the years, I've just convinced myself I might as well start where I'm going to end up.

第一次从来不会正常运行,因此无论如何我还要回头去做单元测试,找找哪儿出错了，因此经过这么多年，我已经说服自己既然一定要做单元测试,那么还是一开始就做最好了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

When he was thoroughly convinced, he saw that this was something he had always known.

当他彻底地说服自己后，他明白了原来他一直都知道这点。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Maybe just reading the code and studying it and convincing ourselves that works.

也可能仅仅就是读读代码做做研究,说服自己代码是可行的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

You see they had to explain to themselves as well as the audience, ?" "how come this lecture is larger than the Introduction to Economics?"

因为他们要说服自己，说服观众，“这门课怎么会比经济学导论跟热门“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

For if such holy Song / enwrap our fancy long," then we'll mistakenly convince ourselves that time could actually run backwards and that we've been returned to the Golden Age, the very first age of human history according to classical legend.

如果这神圣的天籁，永远包围我们想象的心怀“,然后我们就会错误的说服我们自己,时间实际上就会倒转,我们就会到达黄金般的国度，依照古典的传说就是人类最久远的历史。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Perhaps a mistake with some of the answers we got but one of our choice favorites was this one and it's actually fairly worth drawing one's attention to and that's this: I planned on taking the class as a freshman then convinced myself otherwise because I couldn't fit it into my workload.

得到的回答或许有的是错的,我们最喜欢的一个回答是这样的,值得我们注意一下：,我本打算大一就来上这节课,但却说服自己还是别去上了,因为我工作负荷满满的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Or try to forget it, or work on forgetting it, or create a structure of forgetting; which is, of course, always a structure of remembering at the same time.

或者尝试着去忘记,说服自己去忘记,编织一张忘却的网,然而同样是这张网,却总是将那些想要遗忘的记忆留下

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

I don't think that people should be, should have to convince 280 million others simply in order to exercise their own rights, in order to not have their self ownership violated.

我不认为人们，必须说服其他2亿8千万人,只为了争取自己的权利，只为了保护自我所有权不受侵犯。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

I'm going to tell about myself, but you know, you'll find the argument sort of, perhaps more persuasive if, as I tell the story, you imagine the story being told about you.

在故事中讲的是我自己,但你们会发现,如果你们相信故事说的是你们自己,这个论证就会更有说服力

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If it doesn't make sense, you'll-- If it doesn't make sense or, more to the point, if it's something that you do that's foolish or makes you look manipulative or cheap, you'll distort it in your head so that it does make sense.

如果你的行为不合理，你会…,如果你的行为不合理，或者更确切的地说，如果你的行为很愚蠢,或者让你显得很攻于心计，或很廉价，你就会捏造理由说服自己这是合理的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选