I went to see a rich girl I knew. In the morning she pulled a hundred-dollar bill out of her silk stocking and said, "You've been talking of a trip to Frisco. That being the case, take this and go have your fun." So all of my problems were solved.

我去看望我以前认识的一位有钱的姑娘,到了早上，她从丝绸钱袋里取出一张100元的支票说：,“既然你那么向往到圣弗兰西斯科的旅行，拿着这个去寻找你的快乐吧“，这下我的问题全部解决了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

That leads to our next topic that I want to pursue for the remainder of the class, the reform of poetry and the arts.

这导入我们下一个主题,而我想要利用今天剩下的时间，寻找诗学与艺术的改革。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In the condition where she was made to look attractive but gave you bad feedback about yourself, often the subjects in that condition would look for an opportunity to interact with her in the future, obviously to try to prove that her evaluation was wrong.

当一个漂亮女人,对自己评价不好时，这种条件下的人,常常会以后寻找机会,和她相处，明显想证明她的判断是错的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The ones who would seek out calories, the ones who could store and not waste energy, those with an efficient metabolism-- that is those people who took in calories and banked them into their body fat and stored against subsequent famine-- are the ones who would do the best under these circumstances.

那些寻找能量的人,那些储存而不浪费能量的人,那些有着高效代谢系统的人,那些人可以将摄入的热量储存为机体脂肪,以用于对抗即将到来的饥荒,在早先的情况下他们是最适应环境的

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In any case, the question of value and valuation is an important one in Comus, and it's important in part because the rhetoric of the mask is saturated in the economic, the commercial, and the financial imagery that we were looking at in the last lecture.

在任何情况下，价值和评价对于Comus来说很重要，这个很重要有部分原因是,面具里的语言充满了经济的，商业的，和金融比喻的，这都是上次课我们想要寻找的。

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Because if anything worked, there would be a solution that would have some value over time and people wouldn't have to be seeking out the newest miracle, getting every little thing they see on TV and the like, and I'll show you some amusing examples of those in the next class.

如果真有用,那就找到了长期有效的解决方法,人们就不会再三地寻找方法了,只要看到电视上有什么小妙招就要尝试,下堂课我会举几个有趣的例子

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