In other words, this was not meant to be a record to be left for the future. It was an accident.

换句话说,这些并不是刻意为将来,留下的记录,只是个意外而已

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

This is a first person sentence that can be translated, "I am who I am," or perhaps, "I will be who I will be," or perhaps, "I cause to be what I cause to be."

这个第一人称句可以翻译为，“我是自有永有的“或者“我就是将来的我“,或者是“我就是我本该是的样子“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

According to the personality view, what makes somebody in the future the same person as somebody in the past is if it's part of the same ongoing personality.

根据人格理论，将来之某人与过去之某人为同一人,条件是拥有相同持续人格中的部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Socrates' death at the age of 70 was intended by him as an act of philosophical martyrdom that would allow future philosophy to be favorably recognized as a source of courage and justice.

苏格拉底死于70，岁0,是他盘算中的,哲学殉道举动,让哲学在将来顺利地,被表彰为,是勇气与正义的泉源。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If you imagined a choice between this one gene that makes the animal choose to die and the other gene that makes an animal choose for its brothers to die, the gene that sacrifices the body it belongs to will make more copies in the future.

如果你想象做一个选择,一个基因让动物选择死亡,另一个基因让动物,选择为它的兄弟死亡，自我牺牲的基因,将来会复制更多自己。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选