East Texas is right and now he's punching cows," and that was exactly right, and still I couldn't believe Gene could really have known Slim whom I have been looking for more or less for years.

是在得克萨斯州的东部，但现在他在放牛“,“这可真是太巧了“，但我仍然不能相信,吉恩真的认识细杆，这几年来我一直在找他。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I can believe in the existence of a meeting that takes place, even though I smuggle myself in as an observer when I picture that meeting.

即便在想象那场会议时，将自己作为观察者带入其中,我仍然相信会议的存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But, he says, if he tries to persuade people of the goodness and the justice of his way of life on simply rational grounds alone, to persuade them that the examined life alone is worth living, he says he will not be believed.

但他表示，假设他试图说服,良善及正直之士,相信其生活方式的作法,仅在简单的理性基础上，或者试图说服他们,经反省的生命才值得活，他说他们也仍然不会相信他。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Still, granted the premise, if you can't picture it or imagine it, you can't believe in it-- Should we conclude, therefore, that you can't believe you're going to be dead?

但让我们仍然基于，无法想象的东西是不能相信的这个前提-,我们就该得出，人不能相信自己的死亡,这一结论吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选