You might say your child was good as gold when he behaved well at school.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

He anticipated this power much as his father, a reasonably well-to-do banker, might have anticipated long-term earnings from a particularly risky business venture.

他预测到他的力量，正如他的父亲，一个相当富有的银行家，能够预测到从一笔风险高的生意中,能获得多少长期利益一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Foucault, by the way, doesn't mention Nietzsche, but he might very well because Nietzsche's idea of "genealogy" is perhaps the central influence on Foucault's work.

福柯，没有提到尼采，但是他可能很喜欢，因为尼采的“宗谱“理论“,可能是对福柯作品影响最大的了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Well,he decided, he might as well take it like a man.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

Well, you could understand why he might fall into the trap of thinking of himself as located in Chicago with all the visual inputs coming from Chicago.

这样你就能明白,他之所以认为自己身处芝加哥,是因为他的视觉信息来源于芝加哥

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"He found himself in a beach community and thought, 'Well,I might as well try to learn to surf,'" "He asked me if I wanted to come out and learn with him.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

And he had a miserable life until then because he always had illnesses, some of which might be even psychosomatic. So he was the optimist and the one who lived well with the pessimist.

那之前他生活得很悲惨，因为,他总是病魔缠身，有些是精神方面的疾病,因此他属于乐观主义者,而且能够和悲观主义者相处的很好。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Now Descartes, you remember, in his Meditations begins by asking a series of questions about how we can know anything, and one of the skeptical questions he asks is, "Well, might I not be crazy?"

大家应该记得，在《沉思录》的开头，笛卡尔问了一系列,关于我们如何知道一切的问题，其中的一个问题是，我可能疯了？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Although this is a form of an argument that Plato does put forward in other dialogues as well, and so it strikes me so there's at least some reason to think this is an argument that he felt might well be right.

由于这个型相的论点,柏拉图在其他的对话录里也提到过,所以这令我觉得他可能,觉得这个论点可以成立

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选