Professor Yoshino explains. "Shakespeare calls this a problem of ocular proof, the idea that we need to see evidence before we believe in it -- and that,oftentimes, when metaphysical questions of guilt or innocence are difficult for us to answer, we have a tendency to reduce them to questions that pertain to physical evidence.

VOA: special.2011.06.06

They convicted us of guilt; Bid me strike a match and blow.

他们宣告我们有罪；,让我划一根火柴把火吹着。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

There are plenty of pro-slavery writers who also, to some extent, whether out of guilt or out of awareness, saw slavery as wrong, but they saw it as a problem more for white people than for black people.

还有一些亲奴制的作者,在某种程度上,或不知廉耻或未曾意识到,他们错误地看待了奴隶制,他们更看重奴隶制对白人的影响,而不是对黑人种族本身的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam says the judge has called Kasab's confession only a partial admission of guilt, and says the suspect has not admitted to all 86 charges against him.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

Does Socrates believe that speech ? that he constructs between himself and the laws or is it simply a fiction that he creates for the sake of relieving ? his friend of the guilt he evidently feels for being unable to help Socrates?

苏格拉底相信,建构于他与法律之间的说法吗,或那仅是,他创出安抚友人,自责的借口,因为他们对无能抢救苏格拉底？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Scotland's most senior prosecutor Elish Angiolini maintains a court is the only appropriate forum for determining guilt or innocence and she says she deplores Megrahi's efforts to put his information out into the public domain via the Internet.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19