That means you can give someone advice but you cannot force him to do something he does not want to do.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

And we'll talk a little bit more about him: not today, but in the second lecture and in section.

我们会多对他进行讨论：,不是今天，是这个部分的第二次课。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But in our collective cultural consciousness, if there is a such thing, whether we like him or not we tend to think of John Milton as powerful.

如果说我们有一种集体文化意识的话，在这个意识里，不管我们喜不喜欢米尔顿，我们都会认为他是强大的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It was his personal opinion. But he did not believe that the Constitution gave him the power to free all the slaves.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Some laws in Exodus,the Book of the Covenant,a few things--yes, it says Moses wrote those down, but not the whole five books that tradition later will ascribe to him.

出埃及记》中的一些戒律和约书中所提及的部分，说过其中部分是摩西所写，但不是全部,后来传统上才将五经都归名于摩西。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But this does not stop him from working. He says that he is leaving a gift to the city with his art.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

Now I have not only these great stories but this very important memory of what that community meant to him at that time.

我不仅仅收获了这些美妙的故事,还收获了重要的记忆,知道了在那时，集体于他意味着什么。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He's not breathing and we're trying to pump him but he's not -- " "OK,OK.How old is he?"

VOA: special.2009.06.27

He was not blind, he was not deaf, he was not retarded, but something else happened to him.

他并没有失明,没有失聪,也没有变成弱智,但在他身上却发生了一些其它变化

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Flem Snopes marries into a powerful family but his wife does not even have a name for him.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

One by one he subdued his father's trees By riding them down over and over again Until he took the stiffness out of them - And not one but hung limp, not one was left for him to conquer.

他一株一株地征服他父亲的树,一次又一次地把它们骑在胯下,直到把树的倔强劲儿完全制服：,一株又一株都垂头丧气地低下来。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But that never happened. For one thing, she did not love him as much as he loved her.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

A candidate could say during an election that "I'm a moderate candidate, I'm at position 5" but you might not believe him or her.

一个候选人在整个大选中可能说,我是个中立的候选人,我的立场是5,但你不一定就相信他/她的说法

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Ben shouted again, but this time the hunter did not stop and Ben started to move toward him.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

He and I both used to walk into work together not together, I never really met him, but I always felt an affinity to him.

我们都习惯走去上班,不是真的一起去上班,我们从未碰面,但我总觉得和他很亲近

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But Miller's interest in the average man did not stop him from exploring major problems of society.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

I think that actually a better example for Plato's purposes, not that I expect him to have this particular example, but, would be a car.

一个能更好的解释柏拉图的观点的例子,尽管他本人不大可能想得到,我认为这个例子是汽车

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But he says it would not be right for him to speak at length about the conflict until he takes office on January 20th.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

He's the charlatan preacher. We're certainly not meant to identify with him or to sympathize with him, but here you can't help but thinking about someone getting their thumb smashed in a door.

他是虚伪的传教士，我们当然不打算要支持或,同情他，但是读到这儿你禁不住要去,想，某人的大拇指被猛然关上的门夹住的场景。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

You could not get anything for him to risk money on but he would match you.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

The moral of the story... and by the way, they bring him out during meetings of the board at University College London and the minutes record him as present but not voting.

其寓意在于。。。，顺便说一句，伦敦大学学院理事会在开会时,都会把他推出来,会议记录上写着，他到场但未参与表决。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"Celebrating with our family." "Presents!" "I usually get presents that say Santa Claus on them but I'm not really sure if they're from him."

VOA: special.2009.12.21

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

He explained that he wished to talk with Major Anderson, not to give him orders, but to find out what the situation really was.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

So I took it as my role not to keep decisions away from him, but if they were important enough, to make sure that he had, he, the president, not a compromise, he the president had the oppotunity to make decisions among his cabinet officers, and he did.

所以我的作用是,让决定权掌握在他手上，如果事情非常重要，确保布什总统，不是那个折中意见，是总统,有机会在内阁官员的意见中,作自己的决定，他也是这么做的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

But he is not interested. Still,they get him to listen to their act.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

That means if you're good looking you'll also be smart but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

也就是说如果你长得好看,你也会更聪明，但“没有的，连他所有的,也要夺过来“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But Duncan was not sure that playing Porgy would be right for him.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Now, if that's the sort of thing you know about Freud, you are not going to have a very high opinion of him or of his work, but at the core of Freud's declamation, the more interesting ideas, is a set of claims of a man's intellectual importance.

如果大家对于弗洛伊德的了解仅限于此，一定不会对他及其学说给予太高的评价，不过弗洛伊德理论的核心，也是更有价值的观点，是一系列关于人类理性的主张。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

That concern with the state of one's soul he tells the jury has lead him not only to impoverish himself but to turn himself away from the public business from the things that concern the city to the pursuit of private virtue.

这种对灵魂状态的关心,如同他告诉陪审团,已经导致他不只精疲力尽,而且还使他从公共事务,即城邦所关心的事务,转向探寻个人的美德。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选