In the second half of class, I will introduce to you and start telling the first story of the term, and that's about Richard Wright's Black boy which is our first reading of the term.

下面我将把这堂课的，第一个故事介绍并讲述给你们,理查，怀特的《黑孩子》,这是我们这学期要读的第一本书。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It kind of brings us to the end of Richard Strauss, our discussion of Richard Strauss.

我们对理查·施特劳斯的探讨,将由这首乐曲画上句号

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So there is this sense in which the story of a developing writer is the story of someone learning even before they learn how to control language fully that language has these capacities.

书要讲给我们的,其实就是有关理查学习的过程,告诉我们语言在还无法很好被控制的时候,就已经有能力改变理查的生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Basically that the various arguements that might be offered for believing in souls don't seem very compelling upon examinations so there's no good reason to posit this extra entity.

基本上要我们相信灵魂的,不同的理据,都经不住考察,所以我们没有很好的理由,来假设这个额外实体的存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We'll go straight to 79. On page 79 we get an account of a conversation between Richard and his friends and it's annotated with interpretative asides.

让我们直接来看,理查与他同伴的对话,就是有注解的这里。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Okay. So here's a waltz by Richard Strauss not to be confused-- no, excuse me, by Johann Strauss not to be confused with Richard Strauss whom we heard last time.

这是理查·施特劳斯的一首圆舞曲,别搞错了,不对,不好意思,是约翰·斯特劳斯,别和理查·斯特劳斯的搞混了,我们上次听过他的作品

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

We add up the goods, subtract the bads-- whatever our favorite list is-- and we come to our best educated guess about the rival evaluations of not just lives as a whole, but chunks of lives.

我们把好事加起来减去坏事-,不管我们最喜欢哪些事-,我们不但可以据理推测,一生期间其他生活的价值，还能推测某段时间其他生活的价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So let's listen to a track here, a sax solo and I am going to try to keep-- make some sense out of this-- because it gets more and more complex-- by following the electric bass underneath so let's listen to an old tape.

那么我们听一下这段音轨,一段萨克斯独奏,我会尽量从中,理出一些头绪,因为我们的音乐片段会越来越复杂,大家可以跟着底下电贝斯的节奏,好的,我们来一下老磁带

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选