It's not just that Satan or the moon or whatever it is that we're looking at seems indeterminate until we get a proper look at it.

不仅是撒旦或月亮或者任意什么,我们在关注的，看起来非常不确定,直到我们得到了一个合理的想法。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Somewhere along the line in one damn incarnation or another, if you like, you not only had a hankering to be an actor or an actress, but to be a good one. You're stuck with it now.

在线路的某个地方，在化身或其他东西里，如果你想要，你不仅能渴望成为一个演员,也能成为一个出色的演员，你想现在是被困住了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But a regime is more than simply okay? a set of formal structures and institutions okay?

但政体不仅是,一组形式上的架构或机构？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

We imagine instead of living 80 years,living 90 or 95 or more We imagine a longer life But what is it that happens when I say ? if only I'd been born earlier?

我们想象不仅活80，90或95岁,我们想象能活更长时间,但如果我想象早点出生,会发生什么情况？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选