Emily once said: "He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they upset the mind."

VOA: special.2010.07.18

As one of my favorite historians warned me once, "Don't leave out the politics."

我最喜欢的一位历史学家曾如此警告过我,"不要忽略了政治"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But then once they get over, "Hey, what are you doing to me?"

但一旦他们明白过来，他们会说：“喂，你想要我怎样啊？”

纽约的人们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Miss Model once said that Diane soon started "not listening to me but suddenly listening to herself."

VOA: special.2009.08.09

And this point-- that it is culture rather than acoustics-- was brought home to me once in a discussion with a student here at Yale who said to me, "Yeah, but over there at the Slifka Center, we Jews have lots of happy melodies and they are all in minor--what you would call minor."

还有一点,大小调是文化差异,而非声学,有个耶鲁的学生上我家里去讨论,他对我说,哈,就在这个斯利夫卡中心,我们犹太人有很多快乐的旋律,都是小调,就是你说的那种小调

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

More than once, I went down on my knees and asked God to help me decide.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

I was watching a poker game once on TV and somebody who lost said, and I quote, "They beat me like an ugly stepchild" and the fate of the ugly stepchild is, in fact, not a very good fate but this is not a good study.

有一次我看电视扑克比赛，一个输的人说，我引用他的话”他们把我像丑陋的继子女一样揍了“,丑陋的继子女的命运，确实不是好命运，但这个研究也不是好研究。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Once again, he took off a metal band from his arm and gave it to me.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

That puzzle aside, it seems to me that once we become physicalists, there's nothing especially deep or mysterious about death.

除了这个谜团，在我看来似乎在成为物理主义者之后，死亡并没有什么深刻和神秘的了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Not once did I question this fact. My mind told me I was on Mars as your mind tells you that you are upon Earth.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

And what is more, they actually invited me at once to join them, as though politics and I were a fit match.

更甚之，他们其实曾邀请过我加入他们，因认为我是块政治的料子。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I once landed on my face. I soon learned that it took much less effort for me to move on Mars than it did on Earth.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

There's even eating meditation, you did it once with me, and I've done this in other places where you take a raisin and you put it into your mouth, and you take a minute to eat this raisin.

甚至还有食禅，我们一起试过一次，我也在别的地方试过,你拿着一粒葡萄干,放入嘴中，花一分钟时间吃掉这粒葡萄干。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

You winked once at me. And I blinked back at you, as we clamored through salt marsh and fen.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

.. Let me just--rather than-- maybe I'm showing too many things at once.

我们现在还是不要-,可能我一下子讲得太多了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I will give you all development and all you have to do is every once in five years make sure you come and vote for me, and this thing will go on,"

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

All right, so here once again is our same matrix with me and my pair, choosing actions Alpha and Beta, but this time I'm going to put numbers in here.

我们首先讨论我和我对手,选择α或β的矩阵,不过这次我们用数字来表述

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

So let me just return once again to the way in which sign systems are intelligible because lots of- there are going to be lots of moments in a course like this in which what we seem to be saying is that, "Oh, we can't know anything," or "We don't know what we know," or "How do we know what we know?"

现在让我们回到,怎样理解符号系统的话题上-,这个学期你们会有很多时候觉得,天哪，我们什么也认识不了“,或者，哎，我们其实并不了解我们以为理解的事“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That didn't happen to me -- once I got into the lab, I didn't want to leave. So, I thought, "You know what, I think I'll change the medical school plans and now I'm going to go all the way -- chemistry major, chemistry grad school."

这很好，但我不是这样，我一进入到实验室就不想离开了，所以我想“你知道吗,我想把我学习医学的计划改成化学-,我要学化学专业，读化学研究生“

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Once you give me that, give me that there's somebody there with my similar personality, I think that may be all that matters.

一旦你给了我，给我一个有着和我相似人格的人存在，我想就足够了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I have a friend who once claimed to me that he wanted to live forever so that he could have Thai food every day for the rest of, well, the rest of eternity.

一位朋友曾对我宣称,他希望永生以便在,以后无尽的日子里每天吃泰国菜。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I have a friend who's a social psychologist who told me a story once that really made me very nervous, although she's fine.

我有一个社会心理学家朋友,她曾经给我说过一个故事,让我很紧张，虽然她现在一切都好。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

How could anything be bad for me once I'm dead?

我死后又有什么事情能对我不好呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选