As a boy,Carl said he knew if it was time to go to school by the sound of a train.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

Why did God place the stupid fruit in the garden in the first place if he knew in advance that Adam and Eve were going to eat the thing?

如果他事先就知道偷食禁果的事情会发生,为什么还要把这个不祥的果实就那么放在园子里？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

As I said, in some context last time, how many Russian peasants died in the 1890s thinking, "Oh my god, if the Czar only knew that we're starving, how angry he would be with his officials."

就像我在上一讲提到的,有多少死于1890年代的俄国农民会想,"上帝啊,要是沙皇知道我们在挨饿就好了,他该对手下的官员发多大的火啊"

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The king knew that the young man would be punished, even if he opened the right door.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

Maurice Chevalier was a crooner, he was a singer, he was--if your parents knew about France, he was the person that your grandparents even had heard about, and he was somebody from a poor part of Paris, and he was from Menilmontant, and he had this straw hat and he sung tunes-- "Very good my boys," And all of this stuff.

莫里斯·舍瓦利埃是个低吟男歌手,是个歌手,他是,要是你家长了解法国的话,他是那种你的爷爷都可能听说过的人,他是巴黎一个贫穷的地方的人,是从梅尼尔蒙当来的,他带着个草帽唱曲子,"小伙子们真不错",所有这些东西

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

He knew that if he opened fire, the United States and South Carolina would be at war.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

"If I knew how to answer this question, he would not have been at large,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.25