But frankly, I'm convinced, insofar as I'm convinced of anything, that if one doesn't live by that, nothing of any interest is going to happen.

不过，坦率来讲，我相信，或者说，我确信，如果一个人不相信这一点，那么他的艺术创作只会平淡无奇。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Milton had begun the sentence not with calm, prophetic certainty about his divine vocation. He began it with a far more secular set of images, a set of images that comes from the world of business.

弥尔顿并不是以一种先知对他天职，的冷静确信开始写的，他以,更世俗的比喻开始,生意上的比喻。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And so, Socrates' friends ask him, how can we be confident that the soul will survive the death of the body and indeed be immortal?

于是苏格拉底的朋友们就问他,如何才能使我们确信,灵魂会在肉体的消亡中幸存,并且是真正的永生的呢

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So if he came up with the idea, that's the only kind of consent we could have confidence in morally then it would be okay.

所以如果是他自己提出的，除非他是在这种情况下的同意,才能确信说，道德上没问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

So, he started asking himself the question, "What can I be sure of?"

他首先问自己一个问题,"我究竟能够确信什么呢"

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now I think you may be rather happy to hear that this is the last time --I'm pretty sure that this is the last time - that we will have to discuss, at least at any length, Milton's worries about his unreadiness and his un-preparation.

你们可能会很高兴知道,这是我们最后一次-我对此非常确信,最后一次需要仔细的讨论，弥尔顿对他自身的犹疑和毫无准备的焦虑感。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Although Freud was very sensitive to the brain basis of behavior, Freud was totally convinced that the method through which to cure disorders like depression and anxiety would not be medication but rather through the sort of talk therapy and insight.

尽管弗洛伊德对行为的大脑基础十分着迷，但他确信,抑郁症和焦虑症等障碍,不应采取药物治疗,而应采用会谈性治疗和内省。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选