Even before the death of de Man and the revelations about his past, there were a lot of people sort of shaking their fists and saying, "What about history? What about reality?"

甚至在德曼逝世之前，对他的过往的揭露之前，就有许多人挑战他的观点，说道，那历史呢，现实呢“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

For many people, doing justly is reflected in the way you teach, whatever the subject is.

对许多人来说，公正就是,教好自己的专业，不管专业是什么。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Yes, and many people have said: "Well, what you're doing is argueing for American exceptionalism."

是的，许多人对我说过：,你所做的,是在试图证明美国的特立独行“

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

There's a kind of aspect of value for many of us where we feel that something's especially valuable if it won't endure, if it's fragile, or if it's rare.

对我们许多人来说，有一种价值的方面在于,如果某事物不是持续的，如果是易碎的,或者是稀有的，我们就觉得它特别有价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

This helps us to explain, for instance, why in so many cultures the concept of saving face is so important, even if to most modern Americans it seems relatively trivial.

这就很容易解释，为什么很多文化里的面子问题,会变得那么重要，而对许多美国人来说,那都是小事一桩。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The trouble is, you just don't know when that explosion took place, and since there are several periods in this general area that we're talking about now, in which something big happened, some great change takes place, it turns out different people want to have their explosion at different times.

问题是,你不了解火山爆发的,确切时间以及这种爆发,在这个区域又延续了很多个时期,这些时期发生了许多重大事件和重大变化,结果就是不同人对,火山爆发的时间推测各不相同

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There's something--For many of us, there's something horrifying about the thought that something as amazing as us, as exalted and valuable as us, could end up something as lowly and unimportant as a piece of rotting flesh.

有一些，对我们许多人来说，这个了不起如我们的事物,尊贵有价值如我们的事物，最后以一堆腐肉结尾的想法是可怕的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选