Now the reason that is true is because we live in a post-Christian culture, and both aspects of that term are important.

出现这种情况的原因是,我们生活在后基督教文化中，有两方面的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And I think that for some people, you too, Bruce Springsteen and Bruce Springsteen, actually helped them to make sense of their lives. -No doubt about it.

它还帮助许多人，包括你，包括,了解生活的意义，-的确如此。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He just sort of plunges you into their speech, into their lives, and you have to, in a sense, work to get into their character to be able to keep track of who is speaking.

他就是将你拉入他们的语言他们的生活，某种意义上来说你不得不，努力去进入他们的角色,以便了解是谁在说话。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The things I spoke about before: pursuing meaning,purpose; cultivating healthy relationships.

这我之前已谈过，追求有意义的生活，人生的目的;,培养健康的人际关系。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

That was the natural thing to do given the character of life, which was based upon farming, if you leave you lose your farm, and based upon the difficulty of transportation.

生活的意义就是定居一处,种田养家,离开了这片土地,就失去了食物的来源,另外,古时的交通非常落后

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Modern poetry arises, in Eliot's case, with the death of God, with the loss of a theological justification for life, with a sense of disenchantment, a sense of depletion, depletion of meaning and value.

在艾略特而言，现代诗歌的兴起，与对上帝信仰的消失，以及对生活不再在理论使其合理化，及人们的觉醒，对意义和价值的耗尽是相伴相随的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Life will become meaningful as a function of your pursuit rather than you're expecting some objective validation because the world is what the traditional, particularlly traditional religions view said it was. Go ahead.

你的生活会因为有所追求而变得有意义,而不是去期待一些客观实在的好处,因为世界就如传统宗教,所定义和限定的那样,你继续说吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Students, graduate students who said I want to do as you do. I want to write about love and sex, the meaning of life and film and one shot is I always say, but where you gonna get a job?

我的研究生有的说,我想和你一样写爱情和性爱，揭示生活的意义，写电影，和，镜头,我会这么回答，你去哪里找工作？

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选