It's absolutely constitutive of the ideal of freedom, of our freedom; because if we don't try everything, if we don't give ourselves an opportunity to decide for ourselves, then, of course, someone will invariably be making those decisions for us.

它也构成了自由的理念，我们的自由;,因为如果我们不是尝试过所有东西，如果我们不给自己做决定的机会，当然，总是有人会帮我们做决定。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

If only you'd known you were only going to have 20 more years instead of 50 more years, you would've picked a different kind of life for yourself.

如果你知道你只剩下,20年而不是50年，你就会为自己选择另一种生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In almost every poem Walt Whitman wrote he seems to be fashioning himself, if not the whole of this American people, which sometimes he did call an American race, as a new Adam.

在沃尔特·惠特曼所写的的几乎每首诗中,他似乎都是在标榜自己,如果不是标榜美国人民的话,但他确实有时将美利坚民族,称为一个新的亚当

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

If the cabin boy had agreed himself, and not under duress, as was added, then it would be all right to take his life to save the rest and even more people signed on to that idea.

如果派克是自己同意的，而不是被迫的，正如这位补充的，那么用他的生命去救其他人就没问题,甚至更多同学赞同这一观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And if I think back to my own childhood again, not that that was the glory days by any means, but I mean people weren't falling over hour after hour from dehydration because they didn't have a water bottle with them.

如果我回忆一下自己的童年,不是说我的童年有多光辉灿烂,而是我想说当时人们也没有因脱水而倒下,而因为他们没有随身携带水壶

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选