"I am convinced that Haiti has a remarkable opportunity to escape the chains of its past for several reasons."

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

But frankly, I'm convinced, insofar as I'm convinced of anything, that if one doesn't live by that, nothing of any interest is going to happen.

不过，坦率来讲，我相信，或者说，我确信，如果一个人不相信这一点，那么他的艺术创作只会平淡无奇。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Or, and this is the same: in his unconscious, every one of us is convinced of his immortality.

或者这样说也一样，潜意识里，每个人都相信自己是永生的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He adds that the global financial crisis has convinced many Irish people that they can benefit from being part of the EU.

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

And, if you felt you were convinced by my reading of that iconography in these passages, then you want to think about why that's convincing.

如果你觉得我读的,片段中的形象很有说服力，那么你们去想想会什么会信服,作为读者。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"We are convinced that that is the most critical underpinning of any success we hope to achieve along with the people and government of Afghanistan,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

You underlined it perhaps because you were convinced that this was Milton's wonderful and liberatory, progressive celebration of the absolute inviolability of the written word.

你们划出这句子有可能是因为你们被说服了,因为这是弥尔顿精彩的释放的，开明的不断前进的对于绝对神圣的书写文字的庆祝。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Not all of the families of the British victims are convinced that Abdel Basset al-Megrahi was responsible for the worst-ever terrorist incident on British soil.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

I am convinced that you cannot study the mind solely by looking at the discipline of psychology.

我坚信,仅仅局限于心理学学科的学习,是不可能让你有能力去研究人类心理的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Skeptics argue,however, that rising temperatures and warmer oceans are part of a natural cycle and are not convinced the changes are a result of man's pollution.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

He was captivated by it, he--at one point I think he convinced himself that he was a descendant of the kings of that civilization.

他对其如痴如醉,他...我相信有一段时间他甚至将自己,视为那个文明的王室后裔

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"And this fired my imagination. I thought,'My gosh, we could do something like that.'" Sir Clem Renouf, then president of Rotary International, convinced Rotarians across the globe to unite against the disease by raising money to fight the virus and by volunteering their time toward that effort.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

Let me say, I am by no means convinced that the idea for the philosopher-king is an impossibility or is intended as a kind of absurdity.

我要声明，我决不采信,哲学家国王概念,不可能的说法,或说那是种荒谬的说法。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It is not clear what it will be able to do to help revive energy talks with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, During negotiations in the Czech capital,Prague, the three natural-gas producing nations were not convinced by E.U.offers of more trade and stronger transport links in exchange for their participation in a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline, known as Nabucco.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

That's what we need, if we're really going to become convinced of the immortality of the soul.

这是我们需要的，如果我们要真正信服,灵魂是不朽的这种观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So although I'll be largely talking from the perspective of the physicalists If you haven't become convinced of the physicalism so at least explore what will we say about death if we've decided that people are basically just bodies.

所以虽然我会经常,从物理主义的角度讨论,但如果你不信服物理主义,至少也探究一下如果我们认为,人仅仅是肉体,我们会如何看待死亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And when you reread this poem and you look at it in your discussion section, you may want to think about the tenses it sounds tedious but I am convinced that it's not tedious the tenses of the verbs that Milton's using.

当你重新读这首诗,并在讨论时再看它的时候，你可能会思考它的时态,这听起来很乏味，但我确信,弥尔顿用的动词的时态一点都不乏味。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

As such, it shouldn't be any surprise to you that what I'm going to do as we run through each of these arguments is to say, "I'm not convinced by it and here's why."

因此,你们大可不必惊异于,我接下来的举动,当我们讨论这些论点时,我会说,我并不赞同这个观点,我的理由是

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The hyper-skeptical point of view taken by scholars in Europe in the nineteenth century was eroded very sharply by the discovery of places that really convinced pretty much everybody that there was a Troy, and that there was a Mycenae.

以致十九世纪欧洲学者的,怀疑论观点遭到了无情的反击,因为历史遗迹的的发现,确实说明了特洛伊和迈锡尼,都曾存在过

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But he studied development of the individual child because he was convinced that this development will tell him about the development of knowledge more generally.

但是,由于他深信,个体儿童的发展,能够表现出认识发展的一般规律,所以他才选择去研究个体儿童的发展

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

What we need to really become convienced of the immortality of the soul even if we were convinced, is not the mere suggestion that the soul was around before our birth.

能真正说服我们,灵魂是不朽的,即使我们承认灵魂不朽，并不仅仅是因为,灵魂存在于出生之前这样的推测。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Although Freud was very sensitive to the brain basis of behavior, Freud was totally convinced that the method through which to cure disorders like depression and anxiety would not be medication but rather through the sort of talk therapy and insight.

尽管弗洛伊德对行为的大脑基础十分着迷，但他确信,抑郁症和焦虑症等障碍,不应采取药物治疗,而应采用会谈性治疗和内省。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I'm convinced that it's the reader's job to apply the same degree of critical scrutiny, a kind of Galilean critical scrutiny, to the image of Providence that will be elaborated, as you will see, at extraordinary length in Book Three of Paradise Lost.

我相信，把同等程度的细致的挑剔的观察,一种伽利略式的吹毛求疵的观察精神，运用到对将要被详细说明的天命的形象上去，是读者该做的事，你们往后会发现，卷三里洋洋洒洒写了很多。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选