And my real answer is, go try it out, because obviously you can tell I frequently do this the wrong way and the TAs give me a hard time every time. John.

你可以，而我真正的答案是去试一试吧,因为很明显你可以发现我老是做错,而我的助教总是给我难堪，约翰。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Anyway, my mother tried to paint me, but I'd never hold still long enough.

我母亲也试过给我画肖像,可我总是坐不住

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And just to give you some small defense of that approach, I always like to ask students, "Suppose we didn't have a single historical record, no newspaper, no diaries. You know nothing totally reliable for what happened in the latter part of the eighteenth century in America."

我可以给你们一个反驳的理由,我总是问学生们,"如果没有历史文献,报纸和日记,那么对于美国十八世纪后期的历史,你们将一无所知"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选