Now if you expand that to sicence and to practice and whatever. It's your pursuit of life.

如果你将之延展到科学或者实践或者其他什么,你那是你自己的生活追求。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

it becomes something that's characteristic of the conflict that many people will just get bored of it and detach themselves totally and emigrate and live and alienate themselves and many people will get more passionate about the conflict.

它就变成了冲突的一个特点,很多人将会感到厌倦,完全将自己与冲突分离，移民到别国去生活,远离冲突,而很多人对冲突愈发热忱。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

This was, again, the thesis of the classical republicans according to which we are only fully human, or we only become fully human, when we are engaged in political life, in ruling ourselves by laws of our own making.

这再一次印证了典型共和派的的宗旨,根据于我们是完全的人，我们要变成完全的人，当我们被牵扯到政治生活中，我们用我们自己制造的法律来统治自己。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I think they probably also invented a few things, but it was very,very characteristic of the Greeks to borrow from the cultures they encountered and to adapt them, to make them more useful for their own purposes and nothing could be clearer than the alphabet as an example of that.

我认为他们或许也发明过一些事物,但从他们所遇到的文明中进行借鉴,将之应用到自己的生活中去,并使它们更适于希腊人自己的目的,这样的方式也是非常希腊风格的,也没有什么,能比字母表这个例子更能清晰地说明这点了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

If only you'd known you had another 50 years, that you weren't going to die young-- or James Dean, going to burn out fast and die young-- if only you'd realized you were going to live to the ripe old age of 97, you would have picked a different life for yourself.

如果你知道自己还剩下50年，你不会英年早逝-,或者说你不会油尽灯枯，英年早逝-,如果你知道,你可以活到97岁高龄，你就会为自己选择另一种生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And I think what I admire so much about Professor Singer is that he has forced us to confront this reality that what I do with my life is directly related to someone else's life.

我觉得我如此地景仰Singer教授,是因为他让我们直面这一现实：,我们如何安排自己的生活，直接关系到,其他人的生活。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选