Because we had this kind of antiseptic separation between suffering and non-suffering until we are the one suffering.

而我们一无所知，这是因为一道坚固的高墙隔开,我们和身处苦难的人们,直到我们亲自尝到苦难，这种隔离才会消失。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It refers instead, to the concrete, collective, communal salvation from national suffering and oppression, particularly in the form of foreign rule or enslavement.

相反，它指的是很具体的，集体的，社会的拯救,把一个国家从苦难和压迫中解救出来，尤其是那些在外族统治者奴役下的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

and in fact in art and in religion, if I don't recognize my pain and confusion and suffering, it is not, in my words, self-vific.

事实上，在艺术和宗教中，如果我不面对我的痛苦，疑惑和苦难，那么艺术就不是，用我的话讲，有现实意义的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Insofar as it deprives you of a future that would have been bad, then death's not actually bad, it's actually good.

当它夺走你的,苦难的未来时，那么死亡其实不是坏事而是好事。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And her marriage is invariably seen as her reward for all the trouble she's been through.

她的婚姻毫无疑问被看做对她的褒奖,因为她经历了那么多苦难。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

As she goes further and further in to her search for knowledge-- - and finally her abandonment of that search of knowledge-- she sees more and more that this is not just pattern, that it's these storm systems of suffering and need.

在她逐渐深入的求知过程-,和她最后放弃了对知识的寻找-,她越来越明白这不是模式，而是苦难而又需要的风暴系统。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

On the other hand, these voices spoke of a faith born in that suffering which open them up to the presence of God and the ability to place their suffering into the context of Christ suffering.

但另一方面，这些声音也表明信仰的存在,它从苦难中诞生，使受苦的人们,向上帝敞开心扉,使其能够将自己所受的苦,与上帝所受之苦联系起来。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选