He had given three years of his life to his country.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

This is a key to his character; these two episodes are the two that we're given of Moses' life.

这也是他性格的一大特点;,这是我们所看到描写摩西生平的两个片段。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I know also, given your life story, opportunities that you were not obvious to inherit. -Yes.

纵观您的一生，我知道,您并非刻意追求这些成就，-是的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I think that is part of her nature and it has given her all the things in her life that she values."

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

Many of us think that given the valuable and precious thing that life is, suicide makes no sense.

许多人认为生命被赋予了有价值的,珍贵的东西，自杀是毫无意义的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And I realized that by giving me Pax and taking him from me, they had given me the greatest gift anybody had ever given me in my life.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

He presents himself, in other words, as a human being of unparalleled piety and devotion who will risk life itself rather than quit the post that has been given to him.

他呈现的自我，换句话说，是极度虔诚敬神的人类,甚至压下自己的生命作赌注,也不愿放弃这个天赐的角色。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

That was the natural thing to do given the character of life, which was based upon farming, if you leave you lose your farm, and based upon the difficulty of transportation.

生活的意义就是定居一处,种田养家,离开了这片土地,就失去了食物的来源,另外,古时的交通非常落后

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The fact that you don't need a force for it to move forever at a given speed in a given direction, that's not obvious, because in daily life you don't see that.

对于物体不需要力的作用就能保持,确定的速度和方向持续运动这一事实,它并非显而易见,因为在日常生活中你看不到这种情况

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

It's the sort of thing he's given lip service to, no doubt,over the course of his life.

他非常震撼，虽然他终其一生，口头上说相信死亡，这毫无疑问。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But then I ask them to think, and in the book I ask the readers to think: Well, have you given a cost of an expensive pair of shoes to save the life of one of the around 9 million children who are dying from poverty related causes each year around the world?

但是，接着我让他们思考，在书中，我让读者思考这样一个问题：,你有没有捐出过买一双鞋的钱,来拯救900万儿童中的一个生命？,他可能正因为贫困导致的种种问题,而生命垂危，每年世界上都会有这样的儿童？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

To go philosophically from life's so bad given the nature of the human condition, life followed by death, that better to never have had any of it than to have just had a taste and a tease and so forth.

在哲学上从生命是如此不好出发,给定人类处境的本质，生后即是死，什么都不要有,比只尝一口然后被戏弄等等要好。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Given that we're going to die, this fact seeps back in and poisons the nature of life or perhaps poisons the nature of the whole, life followed by death, so that on balance the whole thing's negative.

已知我们会死，这个事实渗透到并使毒害生命的本质,或者也许毒害所有事的本质，生后即是死，所以总的来说，所有的事都是消极的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选