It seems hard to believe that it had been 62 years since the Americans had won Olympic gold in the four-man bobsled.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

So,the editors just buy--completely buy--the text's own mythology and produce all this apparatus around it to help us believe it, too.

所以这个编辑把原稿中的所有想象都保留了,而且说出那么一个有关联的装置让我们更信服。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

A lot of people believe that it's absolutely wrong, that it's anti-Christian.

很多人认为同性恋是绝对错误的，它是违反基督教义的。

给我结婚的自由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I also believe that it is entirely legitimate for our discussions to talk not only about offensive-weapons systems, but also defensive-weapons systems,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

For example, we had a recession that started here -I believe that was '48--and then it ended in '49.

比如我们来看这一次衰退,大概从48年开始,于49年结束

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

While in Pakistan this week, U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she finds it hard to believe that the Pakistani government does not know where al-Qaida leaders are hiding in the country.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

I believe that it is. This is -- Let's take a quick poll of the three of you.

我认为有错-,你们三人来一个快速投票。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The P5+1 last year presented Iran with a revised offer of incentives for it to halt a uranium enrichment effort U.S.and European officials believe is weapons-related and return to negotiations on its nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

You might say, I'll leave that problem-- are souls spatially located or not-- to be worked out by those who believe in it.

你可能会说,我会把这个问题,"灵魂是否在空间上有它的位置",留给那些相信这个理论的人去解决

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"I do not believe we ought to add troops in Afghanistan unless it is indispensable in our war against al-Qaida, "If it is, then we have to do whatever it takes because al-Qaida is out to annihilate us.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

People who hold constrained vision of human nature, believe that human nature cannot be changed; it's immutable-- we have certain instincts, we have certain inclinations.

认为人性受约束的观点的人，相信人性无法改变;,它是永恒的，我们有一些本能，有一些欲望。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

We have no right to put you in a circumstance where you believe you killed somebody and then tell you it was just pretend-- we just made you kill somebody.

但我们没权把别人置于这种境地,让他们以为自己杀了人,然后又告诉他们，那个人只是装死的-,我们叫你杀了人。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Okay, so with your little clicker you can press one, two, three, or four depending on which one of these you believe is the case and let's see if the--if it registers.

拿着表决器的人可以,根据你认为的答案 在一到四中任一项,然后看看它是否注册了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Having learned, or having agreed, let's say, with my prejudice, which is that the Higher Naivete must reign -and if the Greeks said it happened, you got to believe it happened, until you have to believe that it didn't happen.

以我的成见,他已经达到或认同,"高级天真",如果古希腊人说确有其事,你要相信它确实发生,除非你不得不相信它其实并未发生过

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

If you go back to the Declaration of Independence, it doesn't say: "We Americans believe these truths to be self-evident. " It says: "We believe these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, and all men are entitled to life liberty and the pursuit of happyness."

如果你回头再看看独立宣言，上面并没有说：,美国人相信,这些都是不言而喻的真理“,上面所说的是，我们相信这些真理不言而喻，从而,人人平等，所有人都拥有,人身自由，都有追求幸福的权利“

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Well, for the answer to that we have to go back to ancient Greek music theory, and when you read about this--it's really turgid stuff-- but believe it or not, I teach a course on this at the graduate level.

这个,要回答那个问题,恐怕要追溯到古希腊的音乐理论,每次读这些都会云山雾罩的,不管你信不信,我曾在研究生中开过这个课程

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It's actually kind of a crusade of mine-- I believe that the world needs more portfolio diversification.

事实上，这是我长期研究的一个方向-,我认为，世界需要更多元化的投资组合。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Why is--I take it,we all believe death is bad.

我觉得我们都会认为死亡是坏事。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We all do believe something makes it true that two plus one equals three, but it's not the fact that empirical objects-- We don't do empirical experiments to see whether two plus one equals three.

我们都相信有些东西,使2加1等于3是正确的,但这不是说现实的东西,我们不会在现实中做实验,去看看二加一是不是等于三

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Suppose,for example,that if you really did believe, fundamentally,unconsciously,all the way down-- however we should put it--if you really did believe you were going to die, the horror of that would lead you to start screaming and just keep screaming.

假设，比如你真的相信，根本上潜意识里相信-,你真的相信自己有朝一日会死，这种恐惧会让你一直尖叫不已。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But it's often seemed to people that if we really believe that death is the end-- and that's the assumption that I'm making here on out-- if we really believe death is the end, how can death be bad for me?

但是通常我们都会认为死亡就是终结-,我现在所设定的条件就是-,如果我们真的相信死亡就是终点，死亡对我来说有什么不好呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We're also going to recognize, however, that insurance got a slow start because-- I believe it is because-- people could not understand the concept of probability.

不管怎么说,我们得承认,保险起步缓慢,因为...,我相信是因为...,人们无法理解概率的概念

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Well--since I myself don't believe in souls, it's hard to surprise you to learn that I don't think the soul theory of personal identity is right.

因为我本身不相信灵魂的存在，所以你们肯定能想到,我认为人格同一性的灵魂论,不是正确的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Still, granted the premise, if you can't picture it or imagine it, you can't believe in it-- Should we conclude, therefore, that you can't believe you're going to be dead?

但让我们仍然基于，无法想象的东西是不能相信的这个前提-,我们就该得出，人不能相信自己的死亡,这一结论吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

When you look at a random walk you have the intuitive impression that you can extrapolate it -that it doesn't look like -you can't believe it's really random, but the reason you can't is because you overweigh the probability of certain things that caught your attention.

当人们观察随机漫步序列时会有直观印象,并可以以此类推,虽然这看起来并不像...,人们不会觉得这是完全随机的,之所以如此,是因为,人们过分高估了特定事物发生的可能性,这吸引了人们的注意

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选