It's mortality that gives it that sense of ephemeral value, but it's also mortality that threatens to cancel it out altogether.

因为逃不过必死的结局所以给了美朝生暮死的价值，但必死性也可能带来全盘出局的威胁。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

King's death provides Milton with an occasion on which Milton is able to write the most personal poem that he has yet written and perhaps that he will ever write.

金的死给弥尔顿提供了一个契机,让他写出了那之前，或许那之后,所写过的最私人的诗作。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Now, admittedly they've got this little piece of cloth that gives them a decent chance of not killing themselves when they jump out of airplanes.

现在，必须承认他们有这么小小的一片布,给了他们一个当他们跳下飞机时,不会死的足够的可能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The English Civil War, the Thirty Years' War, in which in parts of central Europe a quarter of the population disappeared, were killed, murdered in ways that I will unfortunately show you in a while.

欧洲近四分之一人口,死于三十年战争和英国内战,稍后我会展示给你们看,我对此也很难过

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

But faced with the question what should he do, what did he want to do with his remaining couple of years, what he decided he wanted to do -- was finish his Yale degree-- thought he'd set himself the goal of graduating college before he died.

但面对着他该做什么这个问题，在他剩余的几年生命里他想要做的事，他所决定的他想要做的事,是完成他的耶鲁学位-,认为他想给自己设定在死之前,从大学毕业的目标。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选