All right. It's all very well. You're not an author, but I secretly think I'm an author, right?"

很好，你不是个作家，但是我私下认为我是，可以不？“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So I'm actually writing my own fiction, and no, it's not easy. But you can actually learn from, if you read other writers.

我现在也正在写自己的小说，真的不容易。但是你可以从你以前阅读的作品中学到很多。

写作课程比较难 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But you'd like to write your program not in terms of floats and ints and lists, but in terms of mortgages, and CDOs, and all of the objects that you read about in the paper, the types you read about.

但是你可以不基于,浮点型，整型还有链表来进行编程，而是基于一些房贷类，债务抵押债券类来编程,甚至那些你在报纸上看到的类。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I didn't have the commercial price for the chickenpox vaccine called Varivax but you can imagine that it's even more than $50 a dose for that one.

我不知道水痘疫苗,伏痘敏的商业价格,但是你可以想象一下,这种疫苗每支的价格要超过五十美元

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Where you've got a couple of wishes and you aren't careful about how exactly you state the wish And so you get what you want ? but it ends up being a nightmare,right?

给你几个可以实现的愿望,但是不小心没说对愿望,你得到了自己想要的,却发现那是个噩梦对不对？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And these aren't necessarily so incompatible but the evolutionary perspective I think would argue that you can feel that kind of love for more than one person or at least it would facilitate the passing on of your genetic material to a larger array of the next generation.

两种观点不太相容,但是持进化论观点的人认为,你可以和两个以上的人拥有完美式的爱情,至少会促进,你的基因传给更多下一代的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

You can call it foo if you want, but you shouldn't.

你也可以叫它为foo，但是你不应该这样做。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选