Politics, for him, is less a matter of prudential decisions of better and worse, than it is, you might say, an existential decision of choosing life or death.

对他来说，政治，不是关于谨慎的决定,不管是好还是坏，不如说是，一个选择生或死的必然决定。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And of course, since it's not just black and white, good life or bad life, but various shades of gray, better lives and worse lives, what's the yardstick by virtue of ? which we measure better and worse lives?

因为不是单纯的黑白，好或坏的人生，两者是混杂的，更好的人生和更坏的人生，衡量更好和更坏人生的,道德标准是什么？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And for better or for worse we've done a lot of damage over the past few years for this stuff.

过去的几年，无论好坏,我们都已经对这个东西造成很大的损坏了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Roughly half of you are doing better than average and roughly half of you are doing worse than average.

大约有一半同学学得比别人好,有一半同学学得比别人差。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The laws can't do anything about making people better or worse, it takes them as they are and then it deals with them accordingly.

现今的法律做不到让人,变得更好或更坏,它让人们维持原样,并且循规蹈矩的处理事情

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Good, so we assumed, we kind of jumped to just one election and at least in the American system, for better or for worse, I could voice an opinion on that there are lots of little elections on the way.

好,让我们假设,我们把思维跳跃到某一次选举中,至少在美国社会里,无论正误,我都有权发表自己的言论,现在正有很多初选进行中

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But,there was a big problem, that for all of his failings,human failings, and there were indeed many, and his intellectual limitations which were daunting, he was a man of faith and loyalty to his principles, for better or for worse,in this context.

但是他的弱点,人性的弱点,是个大问题,而且他的弱点确实很多,还有他的智力界限也令人沮丧,他是个固执于自己原则的人,不管原则是好是坏

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选