His father said, "I see you are spending more of your time in idleness than in taking care of business at this crucial time."

他的父亲对他说,"我老是发现,你成天游手好闲,而不在这节骨眼儿上多花点功夫做正经事"

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

All right,saying that Napoleon is in Michigan but not New York doesn't seem very attractive.

说拿破仑在密西根,而不在纽约，这似乎不太有吸引力。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's neither in the text nor in the reader but the result of the negotiation back and forth between the text and the reader, he says, that sort of brings the literary work into existence in a virtual space.

它不在文本中，也不在读者的视域中,而在反复阅读文本和读者的视域之中，他说，那样会把文学作品,放到一个虚拟的空间中去。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

One way that that's done is by introducing genes into cancer cells, genes that aren't normally expressed in any mammalian cell, but that will cause the cancer cell to die.

已经成功应用的一种方法是,将基因导入癌细胞,而这种基因通常不在哺乳动物细胞中表达,但是可以导致癌细胞的死亡

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

If the chance of death would add a kind of zest, then perhaps the ubiquity of death is actually a good thing rather than a bad thing.

如果死亡的可能性增加是一种兴趣，那么也许死亡的无处不在,事实上是一件好事而非坏事。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Saying he's in New York but not Michigan doesn't seem very attractive.

说他在纽约而不在密西根，似乎也不具吸引力。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选