They act as if they are giving us charity,she says. So really it is not easy.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

It's as if "thinking nothing" is not a passive activity, but an active one.

好像“脑子里一片空白“,不是一种被动行为，而是主动的似的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's okay if you're not P-functioning, as long as your not P-functioning is temporary.

没有人格功能性是可以的，只要这个阶段是暂时的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon says peace talks could have resumed long ago, if it were not for the refusal of President Abbas, who is also known as Abu Mazen.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

One of the reasons why the Milgram experiment is so nice to know is that if this ever happens to you, not as an experiment but in real life, it will no longer be new to you.

其中一个原因,为什么我们都应该知道米尔格林姆实验,就是如果这种情况发生在你身上，我不是说实验，而是在现实生活中，你不再对这种情况一无所知。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"We think because of the long term effect of the bone, there may be stress fractures that are not repairing and I think the bone is becoming brittle, and it's not exactly as if it occurs without any warning, but it occurs suddenly with minimal trauma."

VOA: standard.2010.03.14