Whereas If our engine is large, we are much more likely to get up that hill, and to do it gracefully with relative ease.

但如果我们的引擎够大，要上那山就容易得多，不费吹灰之力就能做到。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Part of this reconstructing of national identity often has as much to do with who you're not, not absolute, not Catholic, not French as it does with you who imagine yourself to be.

对国家认同感的重建,一定程度上基于你不是什么,即不是独裁者,不是天主教,不是法国人,这点和自身定位同样至关重要

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

But this is also true of all of Western Europe, which has to do pretty much with the abolition of farmers and I just don't think it's right for me to pass without mentioning the significance.

西欧的情况亦如此,这与农奴制的废除有很大关系,我个人觉得如果不提一下其重要性,那是我的失职

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But what seems likely is the sort of phobias you're likely to have does not have much to do with your personal history but rather it has a lot to do with your evolutionary history.

但你可能患有的恐怖症,似乎与你的个人经历无关,而与人类进化史有着很大的关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选