"If President Karzai won, then he should be the president,". "There is then big responsibilities on him to reach out right across the Afghan political spectrum.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Slightly freaked out, I reach for my head, or perhaps we should say I reach for where I would expect my head to be, but I don't feel anything there.

略微惊吓之余,我用手去触碰头部,也许我们应该说,把手放到,预想中我头部所在的位置,但那里什么也没有

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

One should do," he says, "what archers do when attempting to reach a distant target, namely, aim your bow high, knowing that the force of gravity " will bring the arrow down."

他说：，“一个人应该做的是，模仿伟人所为,当试图达致遥不可及的目标时，意即将目标设高，明了重力会将,射出的箭吸回地面“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"I think we are not in a war with the settlers, and we should do everything we can in order to reach an agreement in order to prevent any kind of deterioration in the region,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

Should it trump all other goods or does toleration reach a point when it ceases to be toleration and becomes in fact a kind of soft nihilism that can extend liberty to everything precisely because it takes nothing very seriously.

它胜过所有的好吗,或是容忍在达到一定的临界点时,就会崩解,而变成某种柔性虚无主义,且几乎援用到所有事物上,因为它对任何事都不是很认真。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But despite weeks of negotiations, the three main political parties - the Maoists,the Nepali Congress, and the Communist Party known as UML have failed to reach a consensus on who should head a new government.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29