The banks weren't willing to lend more than five years because they didn't trust you; they thought things would change and whatever.

银行不愿批准期限超过五年的贷款,因为他们不相信你,他们认为世事难料

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It's when I'm weary of considerations And life is too much like a pathless wood ; Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open.

那是每逢我厌倦于操心世事,而人生太像一片没有小径的森林,在里面摸索，一头撞在蛛网上，只感到验上又热辣，又痒痒，忽然，一根嫩枝迎面打来,那一只给打中了的眼睛疼得直掉泪。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Six-month-olds don't, and even 12-month-olds don't find anything weird about this, while adults are sophisticated enough to understand that that's an unstable configuration and should fall over.

六个月大的婴儿则不会这么想,即使是十二个月大的婴儿,也没有发现这个木块存在的异常,只有经历世事的成年人才会理解,这不是个稳定的结构,而这个结构是会倒塌的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He draws a contrast between the men who give just decisions to strangers and to natives, and who do not depart from what is just, and those who practice violence and cruel deeds.

他对比了,那些即便在面对异乡人和不谙世事者,仍秉持正义给予公正判断的人,和那些残酷暴戾恶果累累的人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

We have a habit in this society to think that individual rights, when they drafted the Bill of Rights, was just laid down for us and it's just traveled through time and here they are.

在这个社会中我们习惯于思考人权问题,创始人们起草了《权利法案》,这份草案被我们所珍藏的,历尽世事变迁仍在这里

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

What you want isn't always what you get and this leads to a set of reactions to cope with the fact that pleasure isn't always there when you want it either by planning how to satisfy your desires or planning how to suppress them.

世事总难以尽如人意,快乐并不总是在你想要的时候得到满足,你只能通过设法满足欲望,或设法抑制欲望,来应对这样的事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选