When you came into this class in the beginning of the semester you may have thought you were just signing up for a class in political science.

当你们在学期一开始时,选修了这门课,可能会以为,这只是另一门政治科学课程,你可能未了解到。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

One year we actually had something like forty-two people signed up, and the course was much bigger, and we thought they all thought they were getting a free prize or something for signing up, there were so many of them.

有一年还真有,大概四十二个学生选了这课,那课堂大多了,当时我们觉得那些学生,是不是觉得选课能有奖励还是什么的,总之人特别多

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选