One visitor,a former Navy man,once said: "The only good thing about my fighting in the war was that I was too young to be terrified."

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Somewhere along the line in one damn incarnation or another, if you like, you not only had a hankering to be an actor or an actress, but to be a good one. You're stuck with it now.

在线路的某个地方，在化身或其他东西里，如果你想要，你不仅能渴望成为一个演员,也能成为一个出色的演员，你想现在是被困住了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Provided there's only one best competitor, not two equally good candidates.

前提是只有一个最佳竞争者，而不是两个同样优秀的候选人。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Some of them only go so far as Athens, which had the good fortune somehow of not being destroyed, one of the few important Mycenaean places that is not destroyed.

有些人逃到了雅典,很幸运的是雅典并没有遭到破坏,它是极少数逃过一劫的迈锡尼重要城邦之一

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

We get a check for the Cheetos as well, but only because we're trained to believe that one tastes good and the other one doesn't, because in different cultures it would be the reverse.

我们还是选奇多作为食品,但选择的原因仅在于,所受的教育,告诉我们它好吃,而蟑螂不好吃,在不同的文化中情况可能是相反的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

suppose we make for, the moment, the bold conjecture, the philosophical claim, that not only is pleasure and the absence of pain, not only is pleasure one good thing and pain one bad thing.

假设此刻我们做出大胆猜测，哲学声称，不仅只,快乐和没有痛苦，快乐不止是一样好的东西，痛苦不止是一样坏的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选