"In ancient Rome,the gladiators went into the arena with these words on their lips: let me win,but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

I will be happy to admit that I read through this I probably cannot tell you what it did unless I really obsessed over these details.

我不得不承认，恐怕我读完后,也不能告诉你它都干了些什么,除非我完完全全被这些细节给迷住了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

If I can just have it there before me, that is a very difficult and derivative intellectual act, and it cannot be understood as primordial or primitive.

仅是面对着它，对于思维来说非常困难，并且这不能被理解为是原始的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf So we must keep apart, You there,I here, With just the door ajar That oceans are,And prayer, And that pale sustenance,Despair!

VOA: special.2010.07.18

But through technique alone to the extensity even existence cannot be found alone There isn't any or many or much meaning maybe limited cases I don't care.

当时仅仅通过技术,连存在都难以实现,如果这样,有技术也没有什么意义了,或许我举的例子不多。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

"I really cannot give you an answer in terms of a definitive date by which we are going to be done,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

But he said he is ready. "I cannot tell you exactly when I will be seated, but I think it will be early next week,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

"I am more than satisfied." "I cannot explain. It is more than I expected, because to meet the pope personally you have to be something special."

VOA: standard.2010.04.18