What you'll do is every day for the next 30 days give me one cent, next day two, four, eight and so on.

你们要做的是在未来30天给我一分钱，第二天二分，然后是四分，八分，以此类推。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

It is the only form of knowledge free from the fallacy of unmediated expression--in other words, free from the fallacy that when I say "It is raining," I mean I'm a meteorologist and I mean it is raining.

它是唯一能免于未适当表达的谬误的一种知识形式,换句话说，免于一种谬误，比如，当我说“天在下雨“时“,我的意思是，我是一个气象学家，并且我的意思是天在下雨。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

For days I had dreamed about a huge, white boat floating on a vast body of water, but when my mother took me down to the levee on the day of leaving, I saw a tiny, dirty boat that was not at all like the boat I had imagined.

那些天我总是幻想着一艘,巨大的白船徜徉在宽阔的河上，但当出发那天,妈妈将我带到岸边时，我只看到一只又小又脏的船,完全不是我想的那样，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

A Christian civilization was deeply at the root of this cluster of ideas we call Manifest Destiny, as was a virulent kind of nationalism that boomed after the War of 1812 and through the 1820s into the 1830s.

基督教文明是我们所称的命运天定,及其相关思想的核心,它是一种有害的民族主义,在1812年战争后兴起,并流行于十九世纪二十年代和三十年代

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

He would be quite famous in his line of work. Whether Magda was his wife or not, one evening when he was wise-lined and gray at the temples he'd smile gravely, at a fashionable dinner party, and remind her of his youthful passion.

他会在他的行业中变得相当有名，不管Magda是否,成为他的妻子，等他有了智慧的皱纹，两鬓斑白了,他会有天晚上在一次上流社会的晚宴上，庄重地微微一笑,对她提起自己少年时代的钟情。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选