"The taxpayer has the right to be outraged." "Who wouldn't be?" Damon Silvers represents the US labor federation,the AFL-CIO.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

He wasn't that widely read, I must admit, but it shows us how far pro-slavery could ultimately go.

我必须承认,他的作品流传不广,但他向人们展示了亲奴主义者可以走多远

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The point I'm trying to make is, fixed-program computers is where we started, but it doesn't really get us to where we'd like to be.

我要指出的一点是，我们从固定程序计算机开始说起，但它并不能让我们到达我们想去的地方。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

- But my dad is there. We...- It doesn't matter! Yes, it does!He could get killed because of us!

VOA: standard.other

You might have thought that showed--didn't Descartes prove to us that that shows--the Evening Star and the Morning Star are two different things?

由此你可能会想,这是不是就印证了笛卡尔向我们证明的,昏星和晨星,其实是两样不一样的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

(OMITTED) "Don't forget us." he said, "That's what people here want - not to be forgotten because this is just the beginning."

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

No, it still wouldn't be right. - And tell us why it wouldn't be all right.

不，还是错误的，-告诉我们理由，为什么是错的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"If we can bring some smile on people's faces - even if we don't do it exactly like it was done before - if they like it, that makes us happy."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

Yes, the crisis started here in the United States, though it wasn't a crisis whose origins or entirely limited to US banks, but it's all over it. -right.

对，这场危机是在美国开始的，尽管危机的源头,或者说危机并不仅限于美国银行，但是和我们国家有很大关系，-对。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

We're not going to get into that 'cause that takes us into heavy-duty music theory, but it's--if we don't have root position then we've got some other note of the triad in the bass, and we've got some kind of chord inversion, so that's what that particular term means up there.

我们就不深究这个问题了，这是一个冗长的音乐理论，但是如果没有了原位，三和弦的低音被另一个音所替代，这就是一种和弦转位，这就是这个词在这里的意思。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So you don't have the kind of self-knowledge that many of us value.

所以你没有许多人所重视的自我认识。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So even if determinism were true of us, that wouldn't rule out our having free will, because you can-- appearances to the contrary notwithstanding-- have both determinism and free will.

所以即使我们真的服从于决定论,那也不能排除我们有自由意志的可能,因为你能,尽管表面看来并非如此,同时遵从决定论和拥有自由意志

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So, that really won't do the trick in giving us the best quality pleasures of the kinds that humans most crave-- the pleasures of friendship and discussion and sexual intimacy.

那无法给与我们,人类最渴望最高质量的快乐-,友谊，讨论，性事带来的快乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

That's why we wish--maybe some of us believe, but at the very least the rest of us, many of us hoped--there were souls, so that death wouldn't have to be the end.

这就是为什么我们会希望，也许我们有人相信，但我们之中其他人，我们中的多数人希望有灵魂的存在，那样死亡就不是终结了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Or, if you want, you could say maybe they died, but since they obviously didn't die permanently-- after all they were brought back to life-- how could they possibly tell us what it's like to be permanently dead?

或者,如果你想的话,你可以说或许他们死过,但既然他们没有永久地死去,毕竟他们被救活了,那么他们怎么可能告诉我们,永久死亡是什么样子的呢

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And the fact that we're always facing some risk of death recedes into the background in the way that most of us don't hear background noise-- that what jumping out of an airplane does for you is it spikes the risk of death.

我们一直面对的某些死亡的风险,这种情况下变成了背景声音,因为我们大部分人都听不到背景的噪声-,而跳下飞机带给你的,是死亡的风险上升。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Offering a realistic scenario, a realistic description of such a person--Ivan Ilyich-- doesn't give us any reason to think that most of us or many of us are in his situation.

提供一个比较真实的场景，给出一个对Ivan，Ilyich这种人比较现实的描述-,并不足够给我们理由来认为,我们中大部分就会和他的情况相同。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选