I started having this vision and this angel appeared to me and this all happened."

我开始看见未来,一位天使向我显现，于是这一切发生了“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Which of the various futures that are open to me are likely to give me the better life, leave me better off, measured in terms of pleasure or pain?

也就是向我敞开的各种未来,哪种能给我更好的生活，让我更幸福，用快乐和痛苦来衡量？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The importance of the questions you ask of yourselves first and foremost, of your partner, of your students, of your parents, of your employees in the future, teammates and so on.

那些你首先向你自己，然后向你的搭档，学生，搭档，未来的雇员，和同事提出的问题的重要性。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The northern states by the Antebellum Period 1820s,1830s,1840s-- was beginning to sort of hurtle toward a different future than what that slave society was perhaps--no, not really slowly it too was hurtling toward a certain future.

北方在战前,也就是19世纪20至40年代,就急速开始朝着,和奴隶社会完全不同的方向发展,但是南方奴隶社会的发展得也不是很慢,它也在飞驰向一个确定的未来

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选