His mind had lost its sharpness. This did not worry Buchanan, because he had planned to be his own foreign minister.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

You don't have to try to get the change of law You don't have to get the supreme court to change its mind. All you have to do is to get out your credit card and go online and it's done.

不必试图修改法律,也不必游说最高法院,做出什么改变，你需要做的,只是掏出你的信用卡，登陆网站，然后一切搞定。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

His sense of the way in which the mind reacts to the world, to its experience, and the way in which it's an uncomplicated reaction, a resisting reaction, or an adjusting reaction, all has very much to do with Pavlovian principles.

他关于思维对外界的反应，对经验反应的看法，和他认为这种反应是简单的，稳定的，适应性的，都和巴普洛夫的理论有关。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

answered Aylmer,surprised. The mind is in a sad state when sleep cannot control its ghosts and allows them to break free with their secrets.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

It goes out to the outside world, interacts,gets its hand and mind dirty, does work outside and then applies its work and learns from "the dirty experiences" and brings it back to the lab and so on and so on in an upward spiral.

而是走到外面的世界，与外界互动，接触那些“肮脏“事物，在外面工作，并吸取经验,从“肮脏经验“中学习“,将得到的经验带回实验室,诸如此类，就像一个上升的螺旋。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

(LENA REYNA) The Library of Congress is planning to post the winning poems as an online collection on its Poetry for the Mind's Joy Web site.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

Here that omniscient narrator, as when that narrator looks in to Haze's mind, offers you a reading of the sky and its separation from the minds of the characters that suggests, or makes you look for, kinds of structure.

在这里，万能的叙述者读解Haze的内心时，给了我们关于星空的注解,角色们迥然不同的想法,暗示了我们，或者说使得我们，去寻找一种结构。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选