It's the outcome of a race one's running faster than all of the other guys and it's as if to have a career at all one has no choice but to come in first.

这里讲的是一项竞赛的结果,某个人比其他所有人跑的都快,就好像这场竞赛中,除了第一你别无选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Is it meaningful to choose to do the good when you have no choice to do otherwise or aren't aware that you have a choice to do otherwise?

这样是否有意义，你选择了善良,在你别无选择的时候,或者是当你没有意识到还有其他选择的时候？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The way the physics works is you will find some laws of motion in mathematical form, you put in the initial conditions of whatever, you solve the equations, and the answer that comes, you have no choice.

在物理问题中,你可以用数学方法得到运动定律,你代入初始条件,然后解方程,获得答案,你别无选择

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选