It's one of the purposes of this poem to allow Milton to grow out of his infancy, to incarnate or to put actually into words the talent that he believes himself to possess.

还有一个目的就是,使弥尔顿自己不断成熟，把他相信自己所拥有的,天赋变为文字。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

What makes it believable as an account of, again, ? the condition we are naturally in?

是什么使它变得让我们相信，我们是自然而然身处于这种状态之中？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

We try to trick people, for instance, into believing that we're tougher, smarter, sexier, more reliable, more trustworthy and so on, than we really are.

比如，我们总是试着去欺骗他人，使他人相信我们比实际更加,强壮，聪明，性感，更加可靠或是更加值得信赖等等。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

We can say that, but I wonder if it's possible even for these similes to convince us of the easy coexistence of these two incredibly important theological categories, free will and divine foreknowledge.

我们可以说，但是我还是怀疑，这些比喻是否能够,使我们相信如此这种两个太过于重要的相异点,即自由意志和神圣天命，之间的共存性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There was no good reason in the world that an abolitionist in the 1830s, '40s, and even the '50s, had any right to believe they would see the end of slavery in their lifetime.

然而在这世上并不存在一个好理由,使一个十九世纪三十年代,四十年代甚至五十年代的废奴者,几乎不可能相信,他们在有生之年会看到奴隶制的终结

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

We all do believe something makes it true that two plus one equals three, but it's not the fact that empirical objects-- We don't do empirical experiments to see whether two plus one equals three.

我们都相信有些东西,使2加1等于3是正确的,但这不是说现实的东西,我们不会在现实中做实验,去看看二加一是不是等于三

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And part of the pleasure for him is to do that transaction, to enliven the old East with the young West. These are all stereotypes of America, but Sal really believes them and really inhabits them.

他将这群人带到纽约，其中的乐趣在于一种“交换“,他想让新西部带动老西部，使其活跃，不过这些都是,对美国的刻板印象，但萨尔真的相信，这种印象占据他大脑。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And deception defined broadly is simply to act or be in some way that fools others into believing or thinking or responding to something that's false.

而广义上的欺骗是以愚弄的方式,使他人相信虚假之事,认为虚假之事是真实的,或是使他人对虚假之事做出反应。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If I had a competition where I'd give $100,000 to the person who looks the most as if they are in pain, it is a very good tactic to take a pen and jam it into your groin because you will look extremely persuasively as if you are in pain.

如果我在这里举行一个竞赛,谁最能将痛苦表演的和真的一样,谁就能拿到10万美元，那么最好用的一招莫过于拿根笔,狠狠地戳进你的腹股沟,因为此时的你看上去真的,足以使他人相信你非常痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选