My advice for our young philosopher, or for any young students is to think about the kind of life you want to live and how it can advance the values that are most important to you.

我建议这些年轻的哲学家们，也建议所有的大学生,来思考一下你真正希望的生活,想一想这种生活将如何深化,对你来说最重要的价值观。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Rags to riches-- that's a wonderful, inspiring life.

从一无所有到家财万贯-,这是精彩而鼓舞人心的生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

This is indicative of the sense that he wants to lay bare, in a literal way, all the seaminess of human life, all the aspects of what it means to be an embodied person, all the ecstasies that come from that embodiment.

这表示他想要以一种直白的方式，暴露人类生活的所有丑恶，作为一个表现的人的所有方面，所有来源于那具体化的狂喜。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

.. You might say, optimists are those-- now in this more chastened version of optimism, optimists say, "Even if immortality would be bad eventually after a million years or ten million years or what have you, " the next chunk of life would've been good for all of us."

可以说，乐观主义者是那些-,对于比较保守的乐观主义者，他们会说，“就算一百万年或一千万年之后“,”永生最终是件坏事，但是“,'现在往后的一大段生活对所有人都是美好的“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选