Our spill response is designed to take that uncertainty into account."

VOA: standard.2010.05.02

So we need to revise our account of what it is on the physicalist picture to say that you're dead.

我们应该重新修改一下,物理主义学上对死亡的定义。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In fact, our readiness and potential to experience happiness is mostly depended on our state of mind, not on our status, or the states of our bank account.

事实上，我们的准备和体验幸福的可能性,主要由我们的心境决定，不是我们的地位或银行账户状况。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"If we refuse to take into account the full costs of our fossil fuel addiction - if we don't factor in the environmental costs and the national security costs and the true economic costs - we will have missed our best chance to seize a clean energy future."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Bentham arrives at this principle by the following line of reasoning: We're all governed by pain and pleasure, they are our sovereign masters, and so any moral system has to take account of them.

边沁是这样论证这一原则的：,我们都受到痛苦和快乐的支配，苦乐是我们至高无上的主宰，因此任何道德体系都应考虑到它们。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

One of the sentences that I'll repeat throughout the class is that happiness is much more contingent on our state of mind than our status or the state of our bank account.

有一句话我会在课程中经常引用,快乐由我们的精神状态而定，而不是社会地位或银行存款。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选