Really about ten or twelve years ago, I began to think of human rights, I've always been concerned with social justice and intersection of social justice and religion.

十年还是十二年之前，我开始思考人权问题，我一直很关注社会正义问题,还有社会正义与宗教交点上的问题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Well, I would certainly never have make a career out of philosophy, if I have focused on issues that didn't have any impact on our lives.

我永远都不会,将哲学作为我的职业，如果我一直关注的是,与我们的生活无关紧要的话题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Connect to the human audience; respect the human audience.

与人类的关注相连接，尊敬人类的听众。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Freud's--Freud was very focused on the family life of the people he interacted with, which is rather upper class Europeans, and these sort of questions would have been difficult for Freud to answer.

弗洛伊德非常关注,与他接触之人的家庭生活，也就是一些欧洲的贵族们，对于这类问题,相信弗洛伊德本人也很难作答。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And he kept track of how many people he gave the vaccines to, and then he kept track of what would happen to those people when a smallpox infection occurred in their community.

他与接种过牛痘的人保持联系,关注当天花在这些人周围肆虐时,他们身上发生了什么

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

So for an example, he argued that the prison system needs to be reformed because instead of focusing on notions of justice and retribution what we should do is focus instead on questions of reinforcing good behaviors and punishing bad ones.

举个例子，他认为监狱体系需要改革,因为人们不应关注公正与赎罪,而应当去关注对良好行为的强化,以及对不良行为的惩罚。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选