"I would like to see the mountains," I said, and then my dream began to form along with the sentence, "I might,I want to be a doctor."

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I began with their ideas of Japan and what did they know, because I knew that they knew very little.

我先让他们写了对日本的看法,和了解多少，因为我知道他们的知识很有限。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Last time I began with Alexander H. Stephens's famous Cornerstone Speech in 1861, the famous passage by the Vice-President of the Confederacy declaring slavery the cornerstone of the Confederate Movement.

上次我说到亚历山大·H·史蒂芬,1861年著名的奠基石演讲,就是那个邦联副总统做的讲话,声称奴隶制是邦联运动的奠基石

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Really about ten or twelve years ago, I began to think of human rights, I've always been concerned with social justice and intersection of social justice and religion.

十年还是十二年之前，我开始思考人权问题，我一直很关注社会正义问题,还有社会正义与宗教交点上的问题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I began this class with a demonstration of -that illustrates two very important facts about language.

我用一段演示来开始今天的课,这段演示阐述了语言非常重要的两个事实

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

That raises the question, I think, that I began the class with today.

这导出的问题，是我今天一开讲时就已提及。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The real insurance industry, as I mentioned before, began in the 1600s with the invention of probability theory and with the invention of life tables for-- the invention of actuarial science; but, it grew slowly.

正如我刚才所提到的,真正的保险始于17世纪,这得益于概率论,寿命表以及,精算学的产生,但是,它的发展很缓慢

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So, I think this is what Pynchon brings to the string of meditations on what language can do, and what the novel is for, that I began my lecture today with, just recapping for you.

我认为这就是Pynchon带来的对语言,能够做什么和这本书是为了什么的思考,我在今天的开始就说过，现在再提一下。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选