He had lost everything. He lay in the snow for a few moments.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

Milton has to justify or at least understand this seemingly incomprehensible and unjustifiable event. It's this drive to theodicy that accounts for the poem's most painful moments.

弥尔顿要解释，至少要理解,这看起来不可理喻，无法解释的事件,这首诗最悲痛之处正是源于这斯奥迪斯的动力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I think for me the great moments are more events and opportunities.

我认为对我来说一些难忘的时刻,更多地是一些时间和机遇。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

President Obama says the Passover and Easter holidays are moments for people to reflect on the obligations they have to one another, no matter what their differences are.

VOA: standard.2009.04.11

Machiavelli's preference for these extreme situations expresses his belief that only in moments of great crisis, where the very existence of a state is at risk, does human nature truly reveal itself.

马奇亚维利偏好,这类极端的情势,表述出他相信,仅在重大危机的当头，当一国的存亡面临考验之时，人类的本性才会真正显现出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

we're not going to talk about the funeral industry in America and how it rips off people, which it does, in their moments of grief and weakness and overcharges them for the various things that it offers.

我们也不会讨论美国的丧葬行业,以及他们如何敲诈百姓，实际上就是这样，在他们悲伤脆弱的时候,对他们提供的各种服务漫天要价。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选