"If we keep defining our happiness through how much we consume it's going to lead to tragic end,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

It's the violence of this horrible act of self-sacrifice, this tragic act of self-sacrifice -- an act of self-sacrifice - intended obviously to preserve the state of virginity -- that grabs our attention and presumably grabbed Milton's.

正是这种可怖的自我牺牲行为的暴力，这种悲剧的自我牺牲--这种明显是,要保护童贞的自我牺牲的行为-,吸引了我们的注意力，大概也吸引了弥尔顿的注意力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's a tragic circumstance but better to kill one so that five can live, is that the reason most of you had, those of you who would turn? Yes?

虽然是悲剧,但牺牲一人保全五人依然是更正确的选择，这就是大多数人选择把电车开上侧轨的理由吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The president said the fact that the violence occurred in U.S.territory makes it even more tragic.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

It's a genuinely tragic sort of story in his case.

这对于他来说是个真悲剧啊

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"Obviously it is very graphic in nature, and it's extremely tragic."

VOA: standard.2010.04.06