"If it could avoid a bloodbath and destruction and displacement, I think that would be a great achievement.

VOA: standard.2009.04.27

If you wanted something, and this is still true in France today, it doesn't do any good to go to the local notable, like you did in the eighteenth century and say, "hey,monsieur,the little guy, it would be great if we had a school."

如果你想要什么东西,这在今天的法国仍然是事实,去当地的贵族那里绝无收获,就像是你在十八世纪的时候说,"嘿,小子,如果我有一所学校就再好不过了"

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The great Achilles, respected still in the afterworld would immediately turn it in to be a complete nobody on earth.

伟大的阿基里斯,死后在下界都受到尊敬的人物,都情愿立刻成为世间的一个无名小卒

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Dr.Sweetness Siwendu treats TB patients at Site C Clinic: "It would be really great if we could have a vaccine - and if not, then at least be able to diagnose TB as soon as possible - preferably within the same day."

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

Milton -- and we know this -- Milton was a political revolutionary, and when he anticipated writing the great poem, he consistently imagined that it would be a poem on a nationalist theme.

弥尔顿--我们知道--是个政治革命家，一直以来他所预想的这首伟大诗歌，的主题应该是民族主义的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

North Korea's official Rodung Sinmun newspaper described the country as a "proud nuclear power" Monday, and warned it would be a "great mistake for the United States to think it will not be hurt" in the event of military conflict on the peninsula.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

In that way it would be useful to make a contrast between Aristotle and someone like Adam Smith the great author of The Wealth of Nations.

在这一方面，有用的对比将是,把亚里士多德,与像亚当？史密斯这样人物,放在天秤的两端。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Well, you should be absolutely unexcited because it doesn't mean anything; if they were giving you extra shares and just you alone, that would be great--that would be good.

你根本不应该感到高兴,因为这没有什么意义,如果他们只给你一人发放股票,这就是件好事

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And against that, we could have the pessimists who say, "The negative side especially once we throw in the negative interaction effects, the negative side is so great that " that it would be better never to have been born at all."

而与此相反，可能有悲观主义者说，“消极的方面,特别是我们一旦把负面相互影响考虑进去，消极的方面就会变得,让我们觉得还是压根别出生的好“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

and talking to other people ,I thought that is a very healthy thing to do and as Zvi happened to live in my dorm and I thought it would be a great opportunity to exchange ideas, and to get to discover more.

和其他人聊天，我觉得这是,非常健康的事情,正好Zvi和我一个寝室,我觉得,我们有机会交换想法，了解更多。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选