So I don't really care that there'll be somebody out there who's still me, if they're so unlike me now.

我不在乎未来是否有一个人,他仍是我，如果他们和现在的我截然不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

When you first bought the house they told you what the mortgage payment was and they're fixing that forever, well for thirty years.

最初你买这套房子的时候,他们已经告诉你每月偿还额是多少,在未来30年里这是固定的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Whatever the details might be, we could describe lives and say, whether or not their life was good as a whole, what the future holds out for them is negative.

不管详细情况是什么，我们可以把他们的生活形容为，不管他们一生的生活是否美好，他们的未来都是不容乐观的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They were playing slaves and masters, and he was the master, and she was the slave. So, he's imagining their future and talking about it with Magda when they're older.

他们在扮演奴隶和主人，他是主人，她是奴隶，他正在想象他们的未来,当他们老了的时候他会跟Magda谈起今天的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选