But I enjoyed it when I finished it. And I was offered a scholarship to do some graduate work because I've done well at it. And it just got went on from there.

但是当我修完了哲学课，我觉得我很享受学习的过程,学校授予了我奖学金来做硕士的研究,因为我在哲学方面做得很好，从那时起，我走上了哲学的道路。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And as a starting point there's a lovely quote from the psychologist and philosopher William James that I want to begin with.

作为开始,有一个可爱的引言,是心理学家和哲学家,威廉，詹姆斯说的,我想用它做开始。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Is this something you always grow up saying, "I wanna be a philosopher when I grow up."

您小的时候是不是常常说，“等我长大了，我要做一个哲学家“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

My hope is that if I do it well enough, people who aren't philosophers and are interested exclusively in conceptual analysis will get something out of it.

我希望如果我做得足够好，可以让那些不是哲学家但是,对概念分析感兴趣的人,得到一些启发。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

But that's not what the philosophers wanted us to do.

但是这不是,那些哲学家想让我们做的事

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I'll mention,just in passing, that these thought experiments that I'm about to give, Bernard Williams I'm going to give a pair of them,come from Bernard Williams, who's a British philosopher.

顺便一提，我即将做的两个思考实验，是源于，一位英国哲学家。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Thought it would ruin my career You can do that in the evenings It's not what it is to be a professor, or a philosophor, or anything that would be respected by a university.

觉得这会毁了我的事业,我可以在晚上搞这种研究,那不是一所大学里倍受尊敬的,一个教授，或是哲学家,或是任何人所会做的事。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

I know that some felt the pace of the arguments was a little slow, but I felt that this was generally necessary, not only for the unphilosophy-savvy population, but also to cover all points."

我知道有人认为论证过程有点慢，但我感觉这样做总体上讲是有必要的，不只是为了不懂哲学的同学们，也是为了能覆盖所有推理内容“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Maybe reading philosophy would be somethin that as long as you were doing it you couldn't die or, as perhaps some religious traditions might've taught, as long as you were engaged in prayer ? you couldn't die. Wouldn't that be nice?

也许看哲学书会是某件,只要你在做，你就不可能死的事，或者也许像某些宗教传统所说，只要你参与祷告,你就不可能死，那样岂不是很好？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选