We add up the goods, subtract the bads-- whatever our favorite list is-- and we come to our best educated guess about the rival evaluations of not just lives as a whole, but chunks of lives.

我们把好事加起来减去坏事-,不管我们最喜欢哪些事-,我们不但可以据理推测,一生期间其他生活的价值，还能推测某段时间其他生活的价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Philosophers and psychologists knew for a long time that getting smacked in the head could change your mental faculties; that diseases like syphilis could make you deranged; that chemicals like caffeine and alcohol can affect how you think.

哲学家和心理学家在很久以前便知道,头部受到重创,会改变你的心理官能,像梅毒这样的疾病可以让你精神错乱,像咖啡因和酒精这样的化学药品,可以影响到你的思维

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So let's listen to a track here, a sax solo and I am going to try to keep-- make some sense out of this-- because it gets more and more complex-- by following the electric bass underneath so let's listen to an old tape.

那么我们听一下这段音轨,一段萨克斯独奏,我会尽量从中,理出一些头绪,因为我们的音乐片段会越来越复杂,大家可以跟着底下电贝斯的节奏,好的,我们来一下老磁带

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选