"I thought I'd never utter these words but I agree with Gordon. You cannot put off this decision."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

We'd all be better off dead, " or perhaps more accurately still, " all be better off never having been born in the first place."

我们死了会更好，“或者更准确地说，“没有出生会更好“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Can't my mind take off from there and push straight ahead to the idea of the perfectly straight, even if I never have encountered it before?

即使我之前没有直接碰到过,难道我的心灵不能借此来推断出,完美的直线是什么样子的吗

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He said he never takes any option off the table, but that such a move would only delay Iran's nuclear weapons development by a few years.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

So again, if we think of a graph of the wave function, we had the wave function is at its highest amplitude when it's lined up with the nucleus, and then as we got further away from the nucleus, the amplitude of the wave function ends up tapering off until it never hits zero exactly, but it goes down very low.

同样，如果我们想象一幅波函数的图，波函数在原子核的位置上,有着最高的振幅，随着与原子核距离变远，波函数振幅逐渐变小直到,它永远不会到零，但它会变得很小。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"It was a failure with regards to its initial mission, a success to the triumph of the people that suddenly were thrust upon a problem that they never anticipated, they never planned for, they never trained for, and were able to pull off successfully a successful recovery."

VOA: standard.2010.04.04