Well, I would certainly never have make a career out of philosophy, if I have focused on issues that didn't have any impact on our lives.

我永远都不会,将哲学作为我的职业，如果我一直关注的是,与我们的生活无关紧要的话题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And we could not preserve the quality of human life

如果不使用动物做实验，我们就难以保持人类的生活质量，

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And if we lower our expectations, we lower our stress levels and we will enjoy life more.

如果能降低期望，降低压力水平，我们会更享受生活。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

.. If we're living in-- imagine we're living in some remote area and we're pioneers out there with our cabins and there's no government.

如果我们生活在-,想象我们生活在偏远地区,我们是住小木屋的拓荒者,也没有政府。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

If we are neutralists, we're going to say, the question is, what would the contents of my life have been, for the next year, ? ten years, whatever?

如果我们是守中主义者，我们会说，问题是，我的生活内容是什么，即下一年的内容，接下来十年的内容是什么？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We live in a gravitational field and that it affects our day to day life, and if you have hip pain or a hip that's diseased in some way, and you can't stand up against that gravitational field in the same way, that severely limits what you can do in the world.

我们生活在一个重力场中,这个场影响着我们的日常生活,如果你的髋关节疼痛,或者有其他髋关节疾病的话,就不能像平常一样,站在这个重力场中了,这严重限制了人的活动能力

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Now if you lived in a culture where the only meat that got served was the size of a deck of cards, and the only pasta that got served was the size of a tennis ball, there wouldn't be such problems, but that's not the case.

如果我们生活在一个,肉类每日摄入量是一副牌大小,或者意大利面只有网球大小的环境中,问题就不会存在,可惜这不是现实

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

While I was there, many many of people said to me: look, we want you to succeed we believe you mind your doing, we know you have good intentions and we hate these people when they were in power, but we have to live here, t succeed, and many people have come here and not succeed before you.

当我在那边的时候，很多人对我说：,我们想要你成功，我们知道你很在意你所做的事，我们知道你是好意的，恨这些掌权的人，但是我们得在这里生活，如果你不能成功，在你之前也有很多人失败了，and，if，you，can’

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

So maybe if we want to say machines don't have a mental life and couldn't have a mental life, what we really mean is no machine could feel anything emotionally.

所以如果我们说机器,没有也不可能有精神生活,我们真正的意思是,机器不能对事物产生情绪

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Now the question is "how does it expand" and "why is it so difficult for us to understand, accept, assimilate and live according to the fact that we can make a difference, if we understand that what we need to understand is how change happens.

问题是“它如何扩大“,以及为什么我们难以理解，我们能够做出改变这个事实,并接受，被同化以及据此生活，如果我们能了解我们需要理解的,是改变如何发生。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

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