Life was like a dream. But like any dream, it could not last forever.

VOA: special.2011.02.17

One thing, maybe not the only thing, but at least one thing, that goes into a life worth having is enjoying it, is pleasure.

有一样东西也许不是唯一但有一样东西，在生命中是值得拥有的,就是享受，就是快乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I think that Milton intends for us to think of the verse in Paradise Lost as he wanted us to think of books in Areopagitica: the lines of Milton's poetry are not absolutely dead things, but they do contain within them a potency of life.

弥尔顿在《论出版自由中》让我们把书看作是肉体,我想他也想让我们这样看待《失乐园》的诗句：,弥尔顿的诗句不是毫无生气的，它们蕴含着生命的潜质。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

COPD is not curable but treatment can extend a patient's life.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

And the drama of human life should revolve not around the search for eternal life but around the moral conflict and tension between a good god's design for creation and the free will of human beings that can corrupt that good design.

而关于人类生命的戏剧,不应该围绕于对永生的追寻,而是道德的冲突和紧张状态，在上帝创造的美好,和人类能腐蚀这种美好创造的自由意志间的冲突。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

President Obama told the graduating class at Arizona State that what drives them through life should not be money, celebrity or power, but a higher calling.

VOA: standard.2009.05.14

He ended up at City University of New York, became a full professor at age thirty three, died in his early '50s, did not lead a good life but had extraordinary discoveries.

最后他去了纽约市立大学，在33岁时成为正教授，50来岁时去世，生活过得不是很好,但有很重大的发现。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

When asked to write something for the book on Texas' death row, he chose not to write about himself, but about a fellow inmate who took his own life.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Now, I've been saying kind things about Western civilization, but I would not want to deny that there is a dark side to the western experience and its way of life.

我刚刚一直说的都是西方文明光辉的一面,但我是不得不承认,西方文明,也有它黑暗的一面

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

You have all those things here." The three million visitors who fill the streets of Williamsburg every year are immersed not only in early American life but in the struggle of a small, new country to find its own identity.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

Because of the fact that you're going to die, obviously enough, it's not just that you'll get whatever life you get, but there's a finite amount of life that you're going to get.

因为你会死这个事实，很显然，不只是说你得到什么样的生命，而是说你将会得到一段有限年数的生命。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Well, I've given a number who have quoted him on a number of reasons but one suggestion might be that it is not so much peace alone that Hobbes cherishes as life. Peace is a means to life.

好，接下来我会讲,有些人援引他的一些原因,但有一个可能是霍布斯,除了把和平向生命一样珍视之外还有其他。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

With this basic principle of utility on hand, let's begin to test it and to examine it by turning to another case, another story, but this time, not a hypothetical story, a real life story, the case of the Queen versus Dudley and Stevens.

有了这条最基本的功利原则，让我们检验一下这条原则,是否适用于另一案例，而这一次，就不再是假定的事件了，是个真实的故事，女王诉达德利和斯蒂芬斯案。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

this court is attributed to him, not 100% sure it's his-- said, "I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, " but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity."

这个报告厅就是他捐建的，但不能完全确定是他所有的--说过，“我不会认为与复杂性一致的简单性是微不足道的，但我会把我的一生用来研究与复杂性相对的简单性“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选