He was continually imagining himself to be someone on the verge of saying something spectacular, but he wasn't quite there yet.

他一直想象自己,成为那种能说出一些惊世骇俗的话的人，但是他还没有到那一步。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

You're sitting there behind your glass window and someone comes in and wants to chat, you should be available; that's what banking is.

你坐在你敞亮的办公室里,有人想进来跟你聊聊,那你就得抽空奉陪,做银行的就是这样

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But if you need a slave representing your business, and you live in Rome and you need somebody in Ostia, the port city of Rome, to be able to be there and watch your imports and your exports of your business, you need someone who can sign contracts, who can lend money, who can borrow money, who can do things like that.

如果你需要一名奴隶代理你的生意，如果你住在罗马，需要有人，在罗马奥斯蒂亚港口,照看你的进出口生意，就得要能签合同，可以放债贷款，及其他类似事务的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

When there are studies which ask people who is more likely to be a lawyer, someone who's Jewish or someone who is Hispanic, who is likely to be taller, somebody from Japan or somebody from Sweden, people can answer these things.

在一些实验里，有人问别人,什么样的人更有可能成为律师，犹太人或者西班牙裔，什么样的人会长得更高，日本人，或者瑞典人，人们会给出这样的答案。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选