"I had never done that sort of work, and it was not the right job for me.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Could it be that the hidden throb I stole from them did not affect their future? I had possessed her, and she never knew it.

它是不是我从那些人物那获取隐藏的脉搏,我为她着迷，她并不知晓。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I feel a bit embarrassed. But I'm not moving, so I'm never going to see that money.

我觉得有点尴尬。但是我不会搬走，所以我永远也得不到那笔钱。

房价非常高 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"Let me say this as clearly as I can: The United States is not and will never be at war with Islam,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

If that's not a novelist's description of what a lost cause is I've never read one.

这就是一个小说家所描述的失败的代价,我从未读到过更贴切的说法了

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But they can never engage in those efforts, if we do not do the job that I am confident we will do tomorrow morning at 7:00 AM on Christmas Eve, and that is to renew the American dream, and revive our middle class, and rebuild the foundation upon which future generations will stand.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

He and I both used to walk into work together not together, I never really met him, but I always felt an affinity to him.

我们都习惯走去上班,不是真的一起去上班,我们从未碰面,但我总觉得和他很亲近

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I call the second argument "The argument from recycling"-- not the best label I suppose, but I've never been able to come up with a better one.

我把第二个观点称为"循环观点",可能这不是最好的名称,但是我没有想到更好的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The way I understood it originally was that that was the whole issue is that the cabin boy was never consulted about whether or not something was going to happen to him, even with the original lottery whether or not he would be a part of that, it was just decided that he was the one that was going to die.

就我的理解，从始至终,一直困扰我们的争端就是,从没有人去征得过派克的意见,没人告诉他即将有什么遭遇，就连最初提出的抽签,他是否有份参与，他们径直决定，他应该是被牺牲的那个。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

I'm not going to tell you what you want to do except to say, you would never pick a point below the minimum variance portfolio, right?

我不是教你怎样去组合，当然了，你不会选择一个,曲线上最小方差点以下的资产组合，对吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选