Even after the Israelites will settle in their own land, the life of the desert pastoralist remained a sort of romantic ideal for them.

甚至在以色列人安定以后,依旧认为，那种游牧式的生活，是非常浪漫的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The rim shot after a comic remark is an attempt to simulate--sort of a pre-technological attempt to simulate the sound of laughter.

讲完笑话，紧接着一阵鼓声,也是为了引起…,引起观众大笑的一种原始手段。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

To sort of give you a quick taste, if after my death I won't exist, how could anything be bad for me?

让你们先来体会一下，如果在我死后，我不存在了，对我来说怎么会有坏事情？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选