That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.

有些读者认为,对基督的信仰是关乎生死的大事,这对于那些对基督教,不以为然的人是一个障碍。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

If whatever is good is truly just whatever people prefer, it's truly relative and there's no objective definition, then there will be some society where people prefer Simpsons more.

如果人们偏好的就是好的，只是相对而言，没有客观定义，那么就是会有些人群更喜欢《辛普森一家》

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

I will be also making them available at Allegra for people who would like to just purchase them already printed out so you don't do it yourself, but I know some people really prefer to work online--and certainly for the first week of reading, you can get started because it is online.I don't think things will be available at Allegra's until probably tomorrow afternoon.

我也同样会让这些书的纸质版,能够出现在学校书店这样喜欢读纸质版的同学,就不用到处去买了，但我知道有一些学生更喜欢,在网上阅读，当然第一周的阅读材料都已经放在，放在网上了你们可以开始阅读，所有的阅读材料,在明天下午后都能在学校书店里买到。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I personally don't like swings that much and it's the B-/B+ range, so I'd much rather prefer that to a swing from A to C, and that's my reason.

我不喜欢成绩波动很大的,比如B-/B+这个范围,所以我还是喜欢像A到C这样小点的,这就是我的原因

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选