Why is God testing Abraham? Does God really desire such a sacrifice?

为什么上帝要试验亚伯拉罕？上帝真的想要这样的祭品吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Why would a company want to do one or the other?

为什么公司想这样或那样做呢

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Now, why the Fat Lady? It's this mythical, incredibly humanly embodied-- whenever you see a fat lady in a novel, one of the first things you want to ask is: why does that person need to be excessively embodied?

现在，为什么是胖太太，这是个神话，人们呈现了，无论你什么时候看到一个胖太太,在小说里，你首先会想问：,为什么那个人需要被这样过多的描写呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So, it's motivated by a huge blindness about the racial history of the United States in any of its detail. That sense of the oneness, I think, points to why and how he makes that illusion, the oneness.

所以这是由对美国种族历史,及其细节部分的极大无知所推动的，这样的一种同一性，我想表明了他为什么及怎样产生了那一幻觉，那种同一性。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选