They can only be moral if there is some semblance of human choice or will expressed in the relationship, our ability to do otherwise.

它们的道德性只存在于,人类在关系和,去做其他事情的能力当中，选择或者表达意愿的时候。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It might be worth pausing over the variety of ways in which we can think of signs in language, all of which have to do with the way in which a given sign might be chosen to go into a speech sentence.

这也许值得尝试,为了理解语言和符号的关系，这一切都和符号怎样,被选择为一段话语的构成部分有关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

There is a vagueness to this language that I think is quite calculated, and it relates, in Haze's case, to his determination to not be converted to evil, but to nothing.

他的语言有种刻意而为的模糊感,对他来说，这与他不向罪恶堕落，宁可选择虚无的决心有关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

As a result, people invest in banks -the stock of banks -because they understand that these people have a long-term relationship with business and they are immune from the adverse selection.

结果呢,人们就会投资于银行,即购买银行的股票,因为他们知道,银行家和企业界保持着长期的关系,他们可以免受逆向选择之害

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The second one, I guess, involves an active choice of pushing a person down which I guess that person himself would otherwise not have been involved in the situation at all.

我认为第二种情况，牵涉到主动选择推人,而被推的这个人,本来跟这事件一点关系都没有。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Where a historian might simply record events that is such a simple thing to do, but let's go with that for a moment) a historian might simply record events, however selectively or partially, ; might try to indicate cause and effect where possible; but a historiosophy is a more conscious philosophy of history.

历史学家好像仅仅记录事件，就好像,这是一件极简单的事，但我们要继续研究一下）,历史学家可能仅仅记录事件但是有选择的，部分的，可能试图在某些地方表明因果关系;,但是历史哲学家对历史中体现的哲学更明了。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选