I think it's to give us a dynamic sense of the family conversation going on between them, but it also addresses one of those obvious things.

我想这是要给我们一个有活力的家庭,对话存在于他们之间的感觉，但是它也表明了一个明显的事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's going to be cancelled next year. I won't get my money back.' Loans must be made even if the debt will be cancelled, for the simple reason that the problem of poverty is a terrible and persistent problem.

因为在来年贷款会被解除，他们就收不回自己的钱了,即使是债务会被免除，人们也必须给人借贷，这仅仅,是因为贫困是一个长久存在的可怕问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Once you give me that, give me that there's somebody there with my similar personality, I think that may be all that matters.

一旦你给了我，给我一个有着和我相似人格的人存在，我想就足够了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's instead a process of organizing pre-existing materials And imposing order on those chaotic materials.

相反，它是一个组织原来存在物质的过程,并且给这些混乱的物质赋予秩序。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Try to tell a story in which this podium exists but this podium does not exist.

试着给我讲一个关于这讲台既存在,但又不存在的故事

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选