Listen to these lines from "Song of Myself": And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

As we might put it: What is it for somebody who's here next week to be the same person as me?

或者说,现在的我,和下周在这里的我又有什么不同

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I don't have as heavy teaching loads, which makes it possible for me to write, as some colleagues at other schools where the teaching load is so heavy that it's very hard to get writing done.

教学任务不太重，这就使得我有时间进行写作，而另外一些大学,教学任务可能很重,那样的话，就没有时间去写作。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I played Tennis tournaments all over the place and I met new people and make connections and stuff and something that Tennis helped me with is coming to the United States, as you might already know that it is expensive especially for an international student to go to college here in the United States and with the scholarship that I get through Tennis it helps me a lot, so Tennis has opened up many doors for me for opportunities."

VOA: standard.2009.12.14

So it seems to me "The argument from recycling," as I call it, is not successful either.

在我看来循环观点,也是不成功的

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I think it's wonderful because it "pulls up" just like Gadamer being "pulled up short," and there is, it seems to me, there's another crisis of expectation in this line in that especially as a toddler I need to negotiate that expression idiomatically.

我认为这非常好，因为“停下来“就像葛达玛的,“突然停下“一样，而依我看来，这里有另一个,期望危机，在这句话中，因为，特别是作为一个小孩,我需要用习惯性的表达法。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The other problem is that as it was passed from me to another individual, to another individual, then the vaccine could change in some ways that were hard to predict because what accumulates in the lesion in my arm is different in some way than what accumulates in the lesion on a cow.

另外一个问题是当疫苗从我这传到另一人,到另一个个体,疫苗可能会发生某些改变,这种改变很难预测,因为胳膊上积累的病变,与牛身上积累的病变是不太一样的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

So if we do this and we form the molecule ammonia, let's switch to a clicker question, and have you tell me what the bond angle - is going to be in ammonia -- HNH Actually, let me draw it on the board as you look -- actually, can you put the class notes on, since you don't actually have your notes to refer to.

如果这样做的话，我们就可以形成氨分子，让我们来做一个课堂练习,你们告诉我氨分子中的键角是多少-,键角，the，h，n，h，bond，angle。,实际上让我在黑板上画出它来，这样你们可以看到实际上-,你能把课堂讲义放出来吗，因为你们没有讲义可以参考。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And in so far as it is possible for me, to try to preempt what that impact or effect might be in the sense of trying to figure out whether or not it will have an impact on you and what it might be.

只要有可能，我就会通过自己对诗歌的感受,来试图推断这首诗,是否会对读者产生冲击，会产生怎样的冲击。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So it's not, as I say altogether straightforward to see how the answer " "Death is bad for me, because when I'm dead I don't exist" how that answers the problem as opposed to simply focusing our attention on the problem ? How can nonexistence be bad for me?

所以这并不是，就像我说的,那么简单可以领会到这个答案,“死亡对我来说不好，因为我死了我就不存在了“,如何回答了这个问题,和我们仅仅把关注点放在问题本身相反,不存在怎么可能对我来说有坏处呢？

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