Professor Reppert says scientists thought they understood the control system in the monarchs until they took a closer look at the insects' antenna.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

And if something within psychopathology I thought could contribute to our wellbeing, I took that and used that.

如果我认为精神病理学的内容能对我们的幸福有贡献，我会吸取并利用之。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

I took those same references the exact opposite way, 'cause I thought that essentially he's referring to the temporality of our moral structure, and how it's just this arbitrary code which our society has decided upon.

我对那些参考的理解完全不同，因为我认为本质上他提到了我们道德基准的暂时性,还提到它们如何只是我们社会,随意决定的准则。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The others took what they thought was aspirin.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

I mean, they took special care of the dead and they thought that the way you buried people and so on was terribly important.

他们对死者有很特殊的仪式,他们认为,逝者埋葬的方式非常重要

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Interviewed on the BBC, Mr.Major refused to be drawn on whether he thought that Mr.Blair deliberately misled the country when he took Britain to war.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Suppose that if you--Suppose we believed--we had good reason to believe-- if you really took seriously the thought that you were going to die, you couldn't stop screaming.

假设我们有很好的理由相信-,如果你确实很认真地相信自己会死，你会尖叫不断这个事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And the president, on many occasions, took unpopular positions that he thought were the right policy because that's what he thought he was elected to do was to use his best judgement and that judgement didn't necessarily need to be the most popular thing around.

许多场合下总统，都会采取并不受推崇的做法,但他认为是正确的政策,因为他认为这是他当选总统该做的,就是运用他最好的判断力,这种判断未必是,最受欢迎的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The philosopher Spinoza thought that ... if we could only recognize the fact, what he at least took to be the fact, that everything that happens in life is necessary, then we'd get a kind of emotional distance from it; it would no longer upset us.

哲学家Spinoza认为,如果我们能够认识到这个事实，至少他认为这是事实，即生活中的一切事情都是必然的，那么它对我们的情绪影响就比较少;,它不会再让我们感到痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选