And in this world where we're, perhaps all of us are, thinking about how many lattes we can still afford.

在这个世界里，许多人，也许所有人，都在思考我们还享受得起多少杯拿铁。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

In the Middle Ages and to some extent in the Early Modern period, we live in a theocentric world.

在中世纪甚至是现在早期，我们生活在以上帝为中心的世界里。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

What does it mean to do anything in a world in which God seems to be so entirely in control of all of our doings and of our actions?"

在一个上帝似乎控制了,我们所有的活动的世界里,我们做那些事又有什么意义？“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We could imagine a world in which everybody dies-- everybody dies at the age of a hundred.

想象一下我们活在一个-,所有人都在一百岁死去的世界里。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

You were sort of in a punchbowl The country was at a party and we kept drinking from this punchbowl, enjoying ourselves, and the rest of the world would take our dollars.

你就有点像在一个动力十足的碗里,那样的话，整个国家就像是一个大派对，我们在这个,动力十足的碗里畅饮，尽情愉悦，世界其他国家或地区的人也会接受美元。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Salvation is available,and with it immortality, but it comes from God and it doesn't come in the world in which we live, but in some other world to be achieved in the future.

人可以被救赎而不朽,但只能依靠上帝,这在我们生存的世界里是不能实现的,但也许在将来某个世界中能够实现

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I think that at least for many of us, there is a sort of logical conundrum we go through and that is, if good people don't vote then we'll be in a bad world; so I have to vote to prove that good people vote, then maybe it will happen.

我想,至少对大部分人来说,必须面对一个逻辑上的难题,就是,如果好人不投票,那我们将会生活在坏人操纵的世界里,所以我必须要投票,来证明好人会投票,那未来的国家将会由好人掌控

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选