Far from having a sort of rational actor model of politics, he operates with an irrational actor model. He assumes that it is not reason but our passions that are the dominant force of human psychology, our desires, our aversions, our passions.

没有一个政治上理性的典范,他就着手塑造一个,不理性的典型，他假设,感情，而不是理性,是统领人类心理，欲望，厌恶和情绪的主要力量。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Yes. Okay. Sometimes I do get students who have just an image of this novel in their mind, or they read it when they were in high school and have a sort of irrational, passionate love for it.

好的，有时候我的确会有一些学生,他们脑子里有一个这部小说的形象，或者在高中里读过,对之有一股毫无理由的热爱。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This will be a theme of my course and also a theme of this book, Irrational Exuberance.

行为金融学将是我这门课的主题,而且也是《非理性繁荣》这本书的主题

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And scholarship of the nineteenth century and most of the twentieth century is generally characterized by a deep-seated bias that views impurity rules as primitive and irrational taboos, and sacrifice as controlled savagery that's empty of any spiritual meaning.

十九世纪和二十世纪的大部分时期,学术界都有一个,很深层的偏见，那就是认为不纯的规则是,原始且无理的，献祭是野蛮人才干得出来的,无任何精神意义的活动。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选