Niki de Saint Phalle was born in France, but spent much of her life in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

Suppose we don't know what economic circumstances we'd be born into and what kind of contingencies we'd have in life.

假设我们不知道,将会在怎样的经济环境中生存,而生命中又会有怎样的意外发生。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Levi-Strauss writes: Whatever may have been the moment and the circumstances of its appearance in the scale of animal life, language could only have been born in one fell swoop.

列维，施特劳斯写道：,不论语言是何时何种环境下,在动物的历史中诞生的，语言只可能是一刹那间诞生。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The main facts about her life are these: She was born December tenth, eighteen thirty, in the small Massachusetts town of Amherst.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

Better to have not had any of it, better to have not been born at all, say the pessimists, than to have this combination package of life followed by death.

最好还是什么都不要有，最好是根本就别出生，悲观主义者如是说，以免有生后即是死这样一个组合。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Benjamin Hooks was born in Memphis,Tennessee, at a time when the southern city discriminated against blacks in all areas of public life.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

The expected life spans increased dramatically in the last couple of hundred years until now, for people that were born when you were born you can expect to live to be 80 years old, a doubling in life span, fairly dramatic.

从几百年前到现在,预期寿命显著增长了,你们同期出生的那批人,能够活到八十岁,预期寿命增长了一倍,令人印象深刻

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

tells the story of his life. Benjamin Carson was born in nineteen fifty-one in Detroit,Michigan.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

And one of the cases that I've talked about probably be the most controversial is where babies were born with severe problems that not gonna be compatible with what the parents and doctors judge to be a reasonable quality of life.

我所讲过的例子中,下面这个可能是最具争议的,有些婴儿一出生就有严重的生理问题,他们无法如他们的,父母和医生所愿,用有正常的生活质量。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Born to save my sister's life." Family drama is another subject of movies this summer.

VOA: special.2009.06.12