Because the pond is deep enough for an adult to wade into but too deep for a child to stand.

这个池塘不深，一个成年人足以趟过,然而小孩子却无法站立。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

which you'll think, only a ten or eleven year old, but when there is thirteen of them, it's a lot.

你会想，不就是十岁、十一岁的小孩嘛，但有十三个还是很多的。

大城市是否危险？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And they attribute it to the fact that, for all sorts of reasons, the ugly kid just matters less to the parent.

他们把这个现象归因为，不知道为什么，父母就是没那么喜欢丑小孩。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So for those of you who haven't read, Richard's father works nights and sleeps during the day, and during the day the children therefore have to be very quiet.

可能有人不清楚，理查的父亲日出而息，日落而作，因而小孩白天不敢出声。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Most of the people are -if you're not accredited as an investor it's like the government doesn't respect you; it's like they're treating you like children.

大多数人...,如果你不符合合资格投资者要求,就像是监管机构不尊重你,把你当成小孩

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I think that if Ford and other car companies didn't use cost-benefit analysis, they'd eventually go out of business because they wouldn't be able to be profitable and millions of people wouldn't be able to use their cars to get to jobs, to put food on the table, to feed their children.

我觉得要是福特和其他汽车公司,不使用成本效益分析的话，他们最后就会倒闭,因为他们无法盈利,这样就会有数百万人无法开车上班，没法赚钱，养不起小孩。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Adults think that when an ugly kid misbehaves it's because they have an ugly soul while the attractive kid, "oh, that little scamp, somebody must have been bothering him."

大人觉得当丑小孩行为不当时,是因为他们的灵魂很丑陋,如果是好看的小孩行为不当，”那个小顽皮，一定是别人烦到他了“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

and I don't know how to phrase this in a politically correct way, but the parents of ugly kids are likely to themselves be ugly people and maybe what they're finding is just ugly people are more violent than good-looking people.

我不知道怎么用不会引起政治争论的话来说，但丑小孩的父母往往也长得丑,也许这个研究的发现是长得丑的人,比长得好看的人更粗暴。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选