To get down to it, you have to cut away what is not true, what is inflated, beside the point, excess, ornament.

更直接点，你们要去掉不真实的，除了这点还有膨胀的，过量的和装饰的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I also use it as a connection between family life, family roots and just to make the adventure more real.

联系家庭生活和,故乡的纽带,并通过它们使这次旅程更真实。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

So again,we don't have any clear, true interpretation of the claim that nobody can take my place, even with regard to dying.

所以我们还是没有一个清晰的，真实的关于没人能取代我的诠释，更不用说死亡了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Poetry, you remember--this is a scientist-- is no more true than religion, but it can perform the function of religion and is therefore capable of saving us.

科学家曾说过-,诗歌并不比宗教更真实，但是诗歌具有宗教的作用,并因此可以拯救人类。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He is the intellectual who enjoys bringing, you might say, the harsh and unremitting facts about human nature to light, who enjoys dispelling illusions and pretty beliefs.

他是一位学者，乐于将人性残酷、,不得宽恕的真实面,摊在阳光下来检视，他更乐于为人破解假想及天真的信念。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But equally true,and more surprisingly, from the personality theory point of view, there's no reason to say that I'm Shelly Kagan and he's not.

但同样真实，并更让人惊讶的是，从人格理论的角度来看，也没理由说我是Shelly，Kagan而他不是。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选