Another important trait was self-esteem: Does the person feel good about himself or herself?

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Franny again cleared her throat. Apparently, her self-imposed sentence of unadulterated good listenership had been fully served. "Why?" she asked.

弗兰尼又清了喉咙，他的自欺式的自白得到了倾听,遇到了好听众，为什么，她问。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

What's the point of all of this study, all of this work, ?" all of this self-denial if I could just wind up" ? - this is a good question -- if I could just wind up dead tomorrow?

要是我就要死了，这所有的学习，努力，自我克制还都有什么意义“,-这是个好问题--要是我明天就死了呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In both cases, this becomes part of their self-identity. That's an essential part as my good friend, Linda Colley, who used to teach here and sadly is not here anymore.

在这两个国家中,这点是他们身份认同感中很重要的一部分,如同我的好朋友,琳达·科里,她以前是这里的老师,很遗憾现在不在耶鲁了

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Self-interest is not good.

自利不是好事。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

In a normal, productive, healthy, happy environment, people don't scream at you about how bad you're doing but they compliment how good you are and that could lead to an inflated self-esteem on the part of people in certain domains.

在一个正常，高效，健康快乐的环境里，人们不会大声跟你说你做得有多差,但他们会称赞你做得很好,因而导致人们在某些方面,自我评价膨胀。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选