Because once you actually push people,to pin them down, what do you mean by it,you end up with something that's either just not true, or not interesting,or not necessary, or not particularly unique to death.

因为你一旦逼问他们这到底是什么含义，得到的东西既不会是真实的，也不会是必要和有趣的，也不会是对于死亡来说独特的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

My roommate for many years was going to medical school as I was going to graduate school, and we found we had so many interesting conversations about chemistry -- her from the context of practicing and using medications and talking about how they worked on a molecular level, and me talking about my research.

让你们读医学预科的人都转行,我多年的室友在我去读研究生的时候，去了医学院,我发现我们对于化学有过很多有趣的交谈,她会说如何应用药物,如何在分子层面上让它们工作，我则说关于我的研究。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

What I'd rather have is your interpretation of things like I thought this thing was really interesting and here's why, or I remember back in week two of the class we talked about this issue and it links up with what we're now talking about in week eight, or I just saw something on the news and here's how it relates, and all those sort of things are the way the concept sheets go.

我想看到的是你们自己对于问题的理解,比如我认为这个问题很有趣,原因如下,或是,我想起之前在第二周谈到的问题,和现在第八周正在讨论的内容有联系,或是,我看到条新闻和课程有所联系,这些东西都能写到观点报告里

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选