"Some people are so fixed in their ways that they wouldn't play commercial.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

If you guys wouldn't mind standing up I'll introduce you so you'll put some names to faces.

我来一一介绍,请大家起立,好让大家认识你们

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Wouldn't it be nice if language in some sense were my own?

你会想如果语言是我一个人的就好了？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"There's some change in the mood." "I wouldn't say this is radical. Actually,automobile drivers have been a rather cohesive force in Russia, and this is not the first time this is happening.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

So in those circumstances, I'm an advocate of active euthanasia. I think it is just as if you have a dog who was dying from some disease, you wouldn't say, well we just let nature take its call.

所以这种情况下，我通常会,支持安乐死，我认为,这就像是你的狗得了病,马上就要死了，你不会说，嗯，我们顺其自然吧。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

As a model of economic activity or as a kind of vocation guide, this parable couldn't be more opposed -- or to some wouldn't seem more opposed - to the parable of the unprofitable servant.

作为一种经济活动,或者职业引导的典型,这则寓言于那个没获利的仆人的,寓言截然相反。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

No. All we can say is, there was an 80 percent chance it would, 20 percent chance it wouldn't, so most of them do, some of them don't.

不能,我们只能说,这个原子分裂的概率是百分之八十,不分裂的概率是百分之二十,它们当中的大部分会分裂,而一部分不会

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And ideally will be access by people across many different countries some of them wouldn't normally have access to the university education I see this is a good and honorable use of Yale resources.

希望它能够通过网络传播到各个国家,为无法通过正常渠道接受大学教育的人们,提供便利,我视此为耶鲁之荣,更是对资源的充分利用

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Because if anything worked, there would be a solution that would have some value over time and people wouldn't have to be seeking out the newest miracle, getting every little thing they see on TV and the like, and I'll show you some amusing examples of those in the next class.

如果真有用,那就找到了长期有效的解决方法,人们就不会再三地寻找方法了,只要看到电视上有什么小妙招就要尝试,下堂课我会举几个有趣的例子

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

And odds are if a week hence, two weeks hence just for fun you decide to reimplement your Scratch project -- or some tiny piece of it, it wouldn't be surprising -- or shouldn't be -- if you end of implementing the same game or animation or whatever using a completely different set of puzzle pieces Same deal we'd see here.

可能一周之后，两周之后，为了好玩,你决定重新实现你的Scrtch工程,或者其中一小部分，它将不会是令人惊讶的-,本来也不应该是--如果你运行相同的游戏,或者是动画，亦或是用完全不同的设置,来运行拼图游戏,我们将看到相同的处理。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But it wouldn't be some deep insight into the nature of death.

但无法提供对死亡的本质的深刻理解。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So we'd say to ourselves,wouldn't we,somehow Napoleon has been reborn or reincarnated, taking over,by some sort of process of possession, the body of the former David Smith,but now it's Napoleon.

所以我们会说，也许拿破仑转世重生了，通过某种夺舍方式，占据了，曾名为David，Smith之人的肉体，但现在他是拿破仑了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选