And the crucial point about the case is that we stipulate that at no point was there a dramatic change.

这个案例的关键就在于,我们推断生命不可能会有戏剧化的剧变。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

First it may be that Adam and Eve had access to this tree up to that point. As long as their will conformed to the will of God there was no danger to their going on eternally, being immortal.

第一，亚当和夏娃很有可能，可以接近生命树,只要他们遵从上帝的旨意,此时的永生，是没有威胁的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

All matter contains within it something like a "potency of life"; that's Milton's phrase. It has a capacity for action, actually a capacity for motion, and, just as books can take on a life of their own in Areopagitica, so all matter for later Milton.

所有物质都更包含一种类似“生命的潜质“的东西;,这是弥尔顿的原话，所有物质都有行动的可能,运动的可能，正如《论出版自由》中书籍可以有自己的,生命一样，晚年的弥尔顿相信一切物质都是这样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He tells his fellows citizens, right, that their lives are not worth living, only the examined life is worth living and you are not living examined lives therefore your life cannot possibly have any value to it.

他告诉邦民们，说他们的生命不值得活，仅有经过反省的人生才值得,因为你未过着经反省的人生,所以你的生命,不可能会有任何价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If we have a debate about abortion in this class, people--some people might say, "Look. The fetus is a sentient being and as such it has a right to survive and shouldn't be killed by its mother."

如果我们在课常上以堕胎展开辩论，有些人可能会说，“胎儿是有知觉的生命体,所以它有生存的权利,它的母亲不应该扼杀它”

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Well, I've given a number who have quoted him on a number of reasons but one suggestion might be that it is not so much peace alone that Hobbes cherishes as life. Peace is a means to life.

好，接下来我会讲,有些人援引他的一些原因,但有一个可能是霍布斯,除了把和平向生命一样珍视之外还有其他。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选