What's interesting is when--around when I was born the answer in the United States was about half.

但有趣的是…在我出生的时候,会投给黑人的美国人只有一半。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It occured to me yesterday in my class that maybe someday there won't be social security numbers anymore, and on birth everybody will be given an e-mail address.

我昨天上课的时候想到,或许有天大家出生时,得到的将不是社会福利号码,而是一个邮箱地址。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

And that may generalize again and it keeps going until you either get back to Adam and Eve, I guess. I don't think they were born in the US as far as I know, or you find somebody who satisfies that definition or you find that none of your parents actually are in that category.

降低到我的父亲或者母亲,是不是天生的美国公民呢,这个问题可以继续向下分解,你甚至可以追溯到亚当和夏娃的时候,据我所知它们并不是出生在美国的,或者你要么找到一个符合定义的人,要么发现你的父母都不满足条件。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

My mother was 43 when I was born.

我出生的时候，我母亲已经43岁。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选