But frankly, I'm convinced, insofar as I'm convinced of anything, that if one doesn't live by that, nothing of any interest is going to happen.

不过，坦率来讲，我相信，或者说，我确信，如果一个人不相信这一点，那么他的艺术创作只会平淡无奇。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Insofar as it deprives you of a future that would have been bad, then death's not actually bad, it's actually good.

当它夺走你的,苦难的未来时，那么死亡其实不是坏事而是好事。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So gods have power only insofar as they are connected with that primordial world "stuff," a technical term that I use throughout this lecture! That means that magic is possible in such a system.

因此，众神只有在和这个原始世界的“物质“,有联系时，才会有神力，整堂课上我都会用到,“物质“这个词，这就意味着奇幻的事有可能发生。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Death is bad insofar as it deprives you of a chunk of life that would have been good.

死亡是坏的，因为它剥夺了,你的本可以美好的生命。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

According to the deprivaton account, death is bad, when it's bad, because of the fact that it deprives us of the good things in life, insofar as we would have continued to get good things in life.

根据剥夺解释，死亡是坏的时才是坏的，因为它剥夺了我们生的美好，在我们还能继续从生命中获得美好时。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选