There's way to make life work that will work to your advantage if you only think about it.

总有办法让生活变得,如你所愿，只要你愿意思考。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Of course Jefferson Davis really preferred to be a military officer and went to West Point and on and on and on, and the rest is history.

当然,杰斐逊·戴维斯,更愿意成为军官,因此去了西点军校学习等等,他余下的生活就如历史所述

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Now in some--in the chronic respiratory diseases there's some infection but most of the other things are caused by lifestyle or by other factors, not the infectious diseases.

如今一些,如慢性呼吸道疾病,有一些是传染所得,但大多数,都是生活方式或其他因素导致的,而不是感染性疾病

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

We know it's an illusion, but we get to live in it so comfortably with so little alteration of the nature of the illusion or of the way in which we negotiate the illusory world, that it becomes kind of womb-like and cozy.

我们知道那是幻觉，但是我们活在其中，如此舒适地,基本不去改变幻觉的本质,也不改变我们在这个幻境中生活的方式，它变得如子宫般安全舒适。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Life will become meaningful as a function of your pursuit rather than you're expecting some objective validation because the world is what the traditional, particularlly traditional religions view said it was. Go ahead.

你的生活会因为有所追求而变得有意义,而不是去期待一些客观实在的好处,因为世界就如传统宗教,所定义和限定的那样,你继续说吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

So many of our financial institutions were created in the 1930s because that was a time when everything was being shaken up and it was a time when people were willing to consider something really different.

由于大萧条时期的动荡,和对人们生活的冲击,人们便愿意想一些与以往不同的东西,所以自那时之后,大量的金融衍生工具如雨后春笋般的出现了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A regime as I've said constitutes a people's way of life what they believe makes their life worth living or to put it again slightly differently what a people stand for.

政体，如前所述，包含了人民的生活方式,让他们相信自己的生命,值得继续,或是再稍作修润,即人民的主张。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And one of the cases that I've talked about probably be the most controversial is where babies were born with severe problems that not gonna be compatible with what the parents and doctors judge to be a reasonable quality of life.

我所讲过的例子中,下面这个可能是最具争议的,有些婴儿一出生就有严重的生理问题,他们无法如他们的,父母和医生所愿,用有正常的生活质量。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Because only by participating in political life do we achieve, can we acquire the excellences or the virtues, as he says, that make us what we are, that fulfill our telos or fulfill our perfection.

因为只有透过参与政治生活,我们才能成就自我，才能获得卓越或美德，如他所说，那造就了我们，实现了我们的，Telos，或说完善了我们。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选