"Competing against the machine will be the death of you," she said.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

When people say,You know,everyone dies alone, you're supposed to be gaining some deep insight into the nature of death.

当人们说，每个人都孤独而死，这应该让你得到对死亡本质的深刻认识。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And perhaps the explanation has got to be the ubiquity of death is this kind of background, constant hum.

也许应该这么解释，死亡的无处不在,是一种背景的，持续的嗡嗡声。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Soon after his death, Roberto Clemente became the first Latino player to be included in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Now for next time we'll be reading Lycidas, which is about the death of a friend -- and the death of a friend, in fact, who died a virgin, we have to assume.

下一次我们将开始阅读《利西达斯》,是关于一位朋友的死亡，事实上这位死去的朋友是位处女，这我们得设想。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"By two thousand and twenty, C.O.P.D.will likely be the third leading cause of death across the world."

VOA: special.2009.06.23

It could be called something which is a kind of pleasure and which therefore could be subsumed under the pleasure principle and would obviate the need for a theory of the death drive as Freud develops it in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

可它也可看作是一种快乐,所以可以被归结到快乐原则中去,并且排除了弗洛伊德在《超越快乐原则》中阐述的,死亡驱动所需的理论基础。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

After his son's death, Lincoln decided that one of his purposes was to be an emancipator -- to begin the process of freeing the slaves.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Of course death can be the final consequence of this, but even short of death, a number of very bad things can happen.

并有可能最终导致死亡,即使不考虑死亡,仍存在一系列的负面影响

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

And the side effects of the treatment can be serious, sometimes even causing death.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

Let's listen to Luciano Pavarotti sing a leading tone, and as by coincidence, it happens to be the one-year anniversary of Pavarotti's death this week.

让我们听一下,卢西亚诺·帕瓦罗蒂演唱的导音,巧合的是,这周恰好是,帕瓦罗蒂逝世一周年

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

While medical examiners have not yet released the cause of his death, Munganga wonders if it might be linked somehow to Jackson's many plastic surgeries.

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

There are two reasons, for the most part, why they are coming: they're coming to find poems that will be relevant, equal to the occasion of a death or a marriage.

主要有两个原因能解释为什么，人们访问美国诗人协会网站：,人们是来寻找一些诗歌，一些有关,死亡与婚姻等的诗歌。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

There is one item of G.I. gear that can be the differencebetween life and death...

VOA: standard.other

We have to pair that with that other evocation of the landscape to see this alternate idea, that actually this distanced criss-crossing of the landscape could be damaging. Think of those other violent knight's moves, like skipping past the mother's death.

我们得把关于风景的另一个回忆组成一对去理解,这个额外的想法，这个疏远的,十字纵横的景色描写可能是毁坏性的，想想其他的暴力的,迂回前进，比如跳过母亲死亡的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

National flags across India will be flown at half-staff Friday to mourn the death of the chief minister of the key southern state of Andhra Pradesh.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

So, the modern state, as we know it and still have it, in many ways grew out of the Hobbesian desire for security and the fear of death that can only be achieved at the expense of the desire for honor and glory.

所以我们知道的现代国家的建立,正如霍布斯所论,是人们对安全的渴求而导致的,只要一个人仍对荣誉有着强烈的渴求,他就永远不会对死亡产生恐惧。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Ibrahim,a civil society activist for the Somali Institute for Research and Development, says that if al-Shabab carried out the attack for which he says there is little doubt the group's denial could be due to the shocking nature of Thursday's death toll.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

So, the first half of the class is going to be concerned with questions about the nature of death.

所以，课程的前半部分将会集中在,死亡本质的问题上。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And eventually,we'll turn to some other value questions about if death really is the end, should we be afraid of death?

最终，我们会转向其他的关于价值的问题，比如如果死亡真的是终结，我们应该害怕吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And the first question we're going to be focusing on is just this, the question of the badness of death.

我们第一个要研究的问题就是，死亡的坏处。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

is like asking, "Might I still be alive after" well what's death? Death is the end of life.

等同于,我能继续活下去么,那么什么是死亡,死亡是生命的终结

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Needless to say, the satisfaction of John Milton, Sr. will have to be postponed to the great hereafter. He will not be able to reap the profit of his investment in his son's study until not only after his own death, but of course after his son's death as well. That's Milton's logic here.

这个名字已经历经了好几个世纪，不用怀疑,弥尔顿父亲的赔偿会继续延续下去,但他却不能在有生之年享受到他对儿子支持的回报，在弥尔顿死后也一样享受不到，这就是弥尔顿的逻辑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And so, Socrates' friends ask him, how can we be confident that the soul will survive the death of the body and indeed be immortal?

于是苏格拉底的朋友们就问他,如何才能使我们确信,灵魂会在肉体的消亡中幸存,并且是真正的永生的呢

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If that's right, if that's the psychology, then even for those death thrill seekers, the ubiquity of death won't necessarily be a good thing because of it being constant.

如果这是对的话，如果这是心理学，那即使对这些死亡刺激寻求者来说，死亡的无处不在也未必是一件好事,因为它是持续的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And the claim might be,that's the central bad of death.

这就是死亡的主要坏处。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

having distinguished between what we've called the death of the body and the death of the person, the question whether or not you're going to die needs to be distinguished.

在我们分清了,肉体的死亡,和个人的死亡后，关于你是否会死的问题,也需要进行分辨。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

That's why we wish--maybe some of us believe, but at the very least the rest of us, many of us hoped--there were souls, so that death wouldn't have to be the end.

这就是为什么我们会希望，也许我们有人相信，但我们之中其他人，我们中的多数人希望有灵魂的存在，那样死亡就不是终结了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The lamb will then be eaten as a family meal, and its blood will be smeared on the doorposts to mark the house so the angel of death knows to pass over that house -handy and the pun works in Hebrew, as well as English, In addition, each family is to eat unleavened bread.

然后这家人把羊吃掉，然后把羊血涂在门柱上，作为标记,所以当死亡天使经过的时候便可以看到,这里有一个在希伯来语和英语中都能讲得通双关语，除此之外，每一家都要吃没有发酵的面包。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But it's a bit cumbersome to constantly be asking: Might I still exist after the death of my body?

但是老是去问"我有没有可能,在死后依然存在"会让人觉得很厌烦

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选