"I know some question whether we can afford to act this year. But the unmistakable truth is that it would be irresponsible to not act.

VOA: standard.2009.06.13

Okay, it could be a bit of a problem if this text has become the basis for a system of religious faith or belief, and your assumptions about it are that its telling a truth that is singular in nature.

如果这本书成为一些宗教信念系统的基本,那就有问题了,你会臆断，这本书上的都是真确的，都是非凡的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Dream": here Frost implies that it is something, "dream" is something more than the truth.

梦境“在这儿他是指一些，超过真理的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It is evident that we want the truth,he said.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Actually, the truth is I sort of almost felt that once you were there, it's kind of easy to get lost there, to forget about it.

实际情况是,我觉得一旦你生活在那里，似乎很容易忘记这种冲突。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Right, 'cause that means either I've been handed zero elements which mean there's really no work to be done or I've been handed one element which is a vacuous truth that it's sorted, right?

因为如果给出0个元素,那意味着不需要做任何事,如果给出1个元素，那显然,它是有序的，对吗？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Is it not palpably nearer the truth to say that no man was ever born free and that no two men were ever born equal?

是否应该说,没有人生来就是自由的,也不可能人人生下来都是平等的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And it's important to remember that Milton will - this is probably an invariable truth, but I'll qualify it nonetheless - that Milton will typically imitate his predecessors only with a difference.

重要的是我们要记住弥尔顿将,这应是无可否认的事实，但我还是要验证一下,弥尔顿通常将,模仿他的文学前辈而仅留一个不同之处。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I think it does factor into her sense that the truth she is accessing, or the truth that she is trying to present to the world in her stories, is one that even a child might be able to understand.

我想这确实是一个因素能让她觉得,她所触及的事实，或者说她通过故事向世人呈现的事实，连一个孩子也可能理解。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Is this really tolerance ? or is it rather a form of moral decay that has simply decided to abandon the search for truth ? and standards of judgment?

这真的是容忍吗,还只是另一种形式的道德沦丧,只不过是决定,放弃找寻真理,和判断的标准？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If,when we interpret the claim everyone dies alone, that just ends up being a slightly pretentious way of saying everyone dies, we might say,oh yeah,that is true and it is a necessary truth, but it's not especially surprising.

如果我们对每个人都孤独而死的诠释，只是装模作样地说明人终有一死，那我们会说，这是真理，也是必要的，但并没有什么好惊奇的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It is what is fit for the earnest love that is working for truth.

这是跟追求真理的那种心相对应的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选