So, the mere fact, if it is a fact, suppose the facts about life and death are as I've described them.

所以，事实不过是，如果这算是事实的话，假设关于生和死的事实正如我所描述的那样。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The right conclusion, I think, is: the reason we write down these models is to try and capture and test our intuitions.

我觉得合理的结论应该是,我们建立模型的目的,是为了更好地描述事实激发灵感

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

For me the absolutely shocking fact of this simile ] is that its primary purpose is merely to describe the number of angels who are prostrate on the burning lake of hell.

为了他们悲惨的境遇黯然神伤,对我来说，这个比喻令人震惊的事实,是它最初的目的只不过,是为了描述葬身于地狱火海的天使的数量之多。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's a reality of life, so how do we account for it?

它是生命的事实，那我们该如何描述它？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

You will find that, even if you succeed in discounting the attitudes of others to you and your life, you must wrestle with yourself most of all, fight with yourself, for there will surge up in you a strong desire to alter facts, to dress up your feelings.

你会发现，即使你可以忽略,其他人对你及你的生活的态度，你还得和自己战斗，几乎是和自己抗争，这样你就会有种强烈的欲望，要扭曲事实来添油加醋地描述你的感觉。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And that's somewhat inconvenient because we're working with wave functions, but it's a reality that comes out of quantum mechanics often, which is that we're describing a world that is so much different from the world that we observe on a day-to-day basis, that we're not always going to be able to make those one-to-one analogies.

这对于研究氢原子，很不方便,但这就是事实,而且在量子力学中经常会出现这种事实,那就是我们要描述的世界，和我们日常所看到的世界,之间的差别是如此之大,以至于我们不能，做出一一对应的类比,但幸运的是我们不用管。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选