At that moment, I would have given my soul to become as small as she and enter her world to help her.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

My life would've gone better had I chosen to become a farmer instead of chosen to become a doctor.

我的生活本来会变得更好,如果我选择成为农民而不是医生的话。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But I was invited to come, and I would say as a trailing spouse to become, to work as a counselor on the campus of Earlham College, which is a small, really wonderful and far reaching, -Wonderful, wonderful college.

而我是应邀前往，或者说,是当了个跟班的，做了顾问,留在了厄勒姆学院，这是一所规模不大，但非常优秀,影响广泛，-很棒，很棒的学校。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"I would like soccer to become a very popular sport because in my opinion I love the game of soccer and I hope a lot of other kids do too."

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

" What would help me become happier if I were sitting there?"

如果我坐在这，什么能让我更幸福“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

but in Me and Orson Welles McKay says the challenge was to rediscover the brash young man who would become the stage and screen icon: "I felt a tremendous responsibility toward him,especially because of his own mythology his own myth making,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

Most of us don't know enough to know with a high degree of accuracy how things would have gone had I decided to become a farmer instead of a philosopher.

多数人了解得都不够,无法更确切地知道,如果我成为农夫而非哲学家,到底会有怎样的人生。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选