"And in many cases these courses went too far, I would say, towards the fluffy treatment of serious material, and students could satisfy their requirement by taking such courses."

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Why do I believe in certain planets too far away to be observed directly through a telescope?

我为什么会相信在望远镜正常观测范围外的,遥远之处存在行星

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So, by definition, we'll be run by morons pretty soon We're not too far from that right now -from that point in our economic history.

所以理论上说公司很快就被傻子们所掌控了,我国的公司离那一点不远了,-离经济史上那一节点不远了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I don't sink in it too far."

VOA: special.2009.07.29

In other words, if you look too closely at a picture or if you stand too far away from it you don't see it clearly it's out of focus but if you achieve just the right distance from it, it comes into focus.

换句话说，如果你站得离一幅图画太近,或太远都无法看清它,它在焦距之外,但是如果你站在合适的位置上，焦距就对准了，画就清晰了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"That is the ingredient which has been missing in far too many places, for far too long.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

But now you will suggest, I've really gone too far, attributing to Hobbes a doctrine of human dignity that one might expect to find in a philosopher like Kant or someone else.

但是你会说，我真的跑题了，把一切都归于霍布斯关于人类尊严的教条,你可能期待一个像,康德一样的哲学家。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Russell says Vilks may have gone too far in making his point about freedom of speech, but those allegedly involved in a plot against him are even more misguided.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

On the other hand--and this is something that I want to emphasize-- you don't want to carry that too far and one of the lessons of behavioral finance is that markets are not really efficient in a global sense.

而另一方面,我想强调的是...,不要认为这就是真理,行为经济学中的一课就说,从全球的角度看,市场并非全然是有效的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But Hawkings said the Tea Party victories could actually turn out to be a disadvantage for Republicans in the November general elections, because Tea Party candidates tend to be viewed as too far to the right ideologically by moderate voters.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

We have only hired one Yale student so far, we're too tiny to--so we're not hiring, in case you wonder It was a student in this class that we hired, but again, that's all history.

至今，我们只雇佣过一个耶鲁的学生，我们太小了所以不需要雇佣别人，以免你困惑,那个学生就是在我教的班上的，故事就是这样。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"But what we showed here is that we can make progress when we are willing to break free from some of the stale debates and old ideologies that have dominated and distorted the debate in this hemisphere for far too long,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.19