He thinks about examples, he surveys examples and tries to extract a kind of metaphysical principle from this.

他思考一些例子，调查研究它们,试图从中提取一种,哲学原理。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And the more I went into it, the more I thought as I see something seriously wrong here with the way we think about animals and the way we treat animals.

于是，随着研究的深入，我所思考的也越来越多,我发现我们对于动物的认识,我们对待动物的方式,存在着严重的问题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

You get people around the world to think about these problems, these issues-- practical idealists who will study what works, who will study the best and through that,make a difference.

让全世界的人们思考这些问题，实际的理想主义者,研究可行的方法，研究最好的个体，他们会带来改变。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Or perhaps Chinese on Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays and Thai on Saturdays and Sundays and spending two hours in the afternoon doing math and three hours in the morning doing philosophy.

或周一三五吃中餐,周六日吃泰国菜,下午花两小时研究数学,上午三小时思考哲学，统统没有用。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So, although we joke about these kinds of experiments, and they are fun to talk about because they are unusual and cute, there is also some serious implications of this kind of work that one might think about.

尽管我们觉得这些实验十分好笑，说起来也有趣,因为它们不同寻常，而且可爱，但实际上是由深刻含义的,我们可以思考一下这类研究的含义。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And I'm going to try-- and when these issues come up— I'm going to try to stress them and make you try to think about the extent to which the laboratory research I'll be talking about can affect your everyday life: how you study, how you interact with people, how you might try to persuade somebody of something else, what sort of therapy works best for you.

当这些问题出现的时候,我会强调这些问题,并让你们试着思考,想想我将讲到的实验室研究,对你们日常生活的影响,你们是如何学习的,是如何与他人交流的,是如何说服他人去认同别人观点的,哪种心理治疗最适合你

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Starting at the beginning of the third week of class that is not next week but the week after on each Monday I'm going to put up a brief question or set of questions, which you have to answer and your answers need to be sent to your teaching fellow.

本课程将于开学后三周开课,也就是自下下周开始,每周一上课,我会提出一系列问题,要同学们思考并回答,大家的答案要在周五前交给研究生助教

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选