If slaves make good soldiers, our whole idea of slavery is wrong."

VOA: special.2009.12.03

Actually, you would be wrong; the computer was invented in the nineteenth century by Babbage, but he didn't actually make one.

实际上，你们都错了;,电脑是在19世纪由巴贝奇发明的，不过他自己并没有真正的造出一台出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

What will make a difference to our levels of wellbeing is if we have right vs. wrong expectations.

能影响幸福水平的,是我们的期望是正确还是错误。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"What we are trying to do is make sure the wrong people don't get their hands on guns."

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

Which is sort of the question we'd immediately like to ask. Instead, I asked why did it produce the result it did. So I'm not asking myself what's wrong? Or how could I make it right?

其实这个问题我们马上就要问,我问了为什么它会返回这样的结果,因此我并没有去在意哪儿错了,或者我该怎么改正它，我在意的是它？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Why does an act of consent make such a moral difference, that an act that would be wrong taking a life without consent, is morally permissible with consent?

为什么征得了同意，就能在道德上如此不同呢，没有征得同意就杀人，在道德上是不允许的，征得同意就是允许的吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.

语言的力量无可估量，绝不是单单使用一下那么简单：,而是通过假意遵从，以及勾起人性良知的方式表达的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The idea of falsifiability is that what distinguishes science from non science is that scientific predictions make strong claims about the world and these claims are of a sort that they could be proven wrong.

可证伪性是指,科学与非科学的区别在于,科学能够做出关于世界的有力预测,而这些预测是可以被证伪的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And similar is a leader, sometimes you don' t have all the information that you want, you've gotta be willing to say " i am gonna go with the best information that i have" i am gonna make the best decision that i can and if we were wrong, we admit it, and we fix it, but we won't just stand there.

同样，作为一名领导者，有时你无法取得,所有的相关信息，你要愿意主动地说,“我将最大可能地,利用手上的资料来工作”,“我要做出自己能够做出的最好的决定”,如果我们犯了错，就虚心承认而且设法改正，但我们不会袖手旁观。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

I'm going to go there initially, so I can move this over here, so I can get the base part of that over there, I want to put that one there before I put this over here, finally I get to the point where I can move the bottom one over now I've got to be really careful to make sure that I don't cover up the bottom one in the wrong way before I get to the stage where I wish they were posts and there you go.

我要先把其他的放到多余的柱子上，然后把最底下的放到目标柱子上，我要在把除了最底下的圆盘，其他的圆盘挪过来之前,把最下面的圆盘放在这儿,因此我得出了最下面的盘子,应该如何摆放的结论,当我没得到其他盘子的正确摆放位置的时候,要很小心的确认没把错误的盘子,放在最下面的盘子上面。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选