"No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory...

VOA: special.2011.06.02

Why 5,040, you may ask;do we have any mathematicians among us who will give me a quick answer to that?

你会问为什么是五千零四十个呢,在座的有没有数学家能快速给出答案

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

That's the negative response to undecidability, and it's of course, a view that many of us may entertain.

那就是对不可判定性的一个消极的反应，当然，我们可以容纳这个观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He says it may be an evolutionary characteristic developed to help us.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

The philosopher-king, he tells us, may be an object of hope or wish but Plato realizes that this possibility is not really to be expected.

他告诉我们，哲学家国王也许是希望或愿望的目标,但柏拉图了解到,这种可能性不是真的值得期待。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If those compounds can be isolated, maybe someday you'll be able to take an anti-cancer pill, but for us coffee lovers, the answer may just be another refill.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

And there are a lot of interesting things that the food industry has trained us to believe that experts say may or may not be true.

有趣的是,是那些食品厂家让我们明白,专家说的也是有对有错的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"We have a message for them." "They may not listen to us now, but I guarantee you they will listen to us in November when we vote the bums out!"

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Here are two stories not having to do with death per se that may help us get a feel for the oddity of trying to disregard these facts.

下面有两个和死亡本身无关的故事,可能会让我们感觉到,试图无视这些事实的奇怪之处。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"We're working very closely with Interpol," "They are in the process of establishing what is called the Dangerous and Disruptive Persons Database which will assist us in identifying people that may pose a potential danger to the tournament as far as organized fighting or hooliganism is concerned."

VOA: standard.2009.06.12

The story of Adam and Eve and of the fall of Satan may strike us - having read or about to read Paradise Lost -- may strike us as a natural subject for Milton to have chosen for his epic poem.

弥尔顿选择了亚当夏娃以及撒旦的溃败的故事,作为他史诗的主题在我们看来--不管我们读过,还是将要读《失乐园》--都是很自然的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So musical notation: the first grid pattern in Western culture-- but it does lock us in in interesting ways that we may-- you perhaps have never considered-- compared to how music is made in other cultures.

因此音乐记谱法,是西方文化中最早的网格图示,但这也限制了我们以某种有趣的方式,你们也许从来没有想过的方式创作,相对其他文化中音乐创作的过程而言

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

I feel that as absolutely at the heart of the Muslim tradition 9 perhaps most beautifully articulated in Soura 49 that God made us in different nations and tribes so we may come to know one another.

我觉得这绝对是,穆斯林传统的核心所在,而这在Soura，49中有最美的表达9,上帝将我们创造为不同的民族和部落,因此我们可以逐渐了解彼此。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

If we had been thinking -- and some of us may well have been thinking and we were right to think provisionally -that Satan was a character that we could actually identify with, if we had been thinking that Satan was in any way a perfect character with some sort of justifiable claim -these thoughts are now being corrected by the means, by the mechanism, of the simile.

如果我们在思考--有些人已经在考虑这些问题,我们的确应该暂时想一想,-撒旦是一个的确可以，如果我们想过撒旦是,一个应当被公正对待的完美的角色的话,-这些想法目前已经得到了，这个机制和比喻的纠正。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选