I do not know why I should fear death.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

It's not about marriage, and marriage will still seem quite a ways off, I fear, when you read Lycidas, but we will be marking the transition to the poetry of marriage soon enough.

那不是讲婚姻的，我担心当你们读《利西亚斯》的时候，婚姻仍是一个走出的方法，但是我们,将很快标记诗篇中关于婚姻的转变。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I do not fear poverty and death does not frighten me.

无惧贫困,且死亡也吓不倒我。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

and the forces of nature. I dreaded that first robin so, But he is mastered now, And I'm accustomed to him grown-- He hurts a little though I dared not meet the daffodils, For fear their yellow gown Would pierce me with a fashion So foreign to my own.

VOA: special.2010.07.18