A funny coincidence is that since our names are close in the alphabet-- you often find our books right together in bookstores because Shiller and Siegel-- if they're shelving alphabetically-- would end up together.

巧合的是,因为我们的姓氏在字母表中排在一起,所以书店里常见到我们的书也摆放在一起,因为希勒和西格尔,如果书店按字母顺序摆放书籍的话,我们的书就会放在一起

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Is it any coincidence ? that graduates from this university and a handful of others not unlike it ? find themselves in high positions of government, of business, of law, and the academy?

从这所大学毕业的学生,难道都是偶然,而他们有些还在政府，企业,法律相关及学院中执牛耳岗位，将这个阶级形容成？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He won't listen;he bowls ahead, and he discovers in the process the terrible,terrible truth, which is that by accident,by coincidence, not by intent that as a young man he killed his father and subsequently married his mother.

他充耳不闻,执迷不悟,随后他在不经意间,发现了极其可怕的事实,或是因为事故,或是因为巧合,总之绝不是故意的,他年少时曾经弑父,随即娶了自己的母亲

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

First of all, it's not a coincidence that in both England and in the Dutch Republic you had, along with the city-states of Northern Italy, you had the largest percentage of middle-class population that you could find in Europe.

英国和荷兰共和国,以及北意大利的城邦,拥有全欧洲比例最大的中产阶级人群,这是有它的必然性的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选