I had my student research assistant find that guy, let's call him up and ask him about it.

我有个学生助理问我能否找到这个家伙，我们打电话问问他关于那个箱子的事儿吧。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He was a hobo by choice: As a little boy, he'd seen a hobo come up to ask his mother for a piece of pie and she had given it to him and when the hobo went off down the road the little boy had said, "Ma, what was that fellow?" "Why, that's a hobo."

他是自愿成为流浪汉的：,当他还是个小男孩的时候，他见过一个流浪汉向他妈妈,要一块派，他妈妈给他了,于是当流浪汉离开的时候小男孩就问，“妈妈，那个家伙是谁“，“是个流浪汉“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Put that all down and you pretty quickly see that, regardless whether the other guy rats you or not, you're better off ratting him out.

先放下手里的事,快速思考一下,不管那个家伙是不是坦白了,你最好要坦白

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

You can talk about the origins of French nationalism in the middle of the eighteenth century, but it's very closely tied to this dynasty, at least until they lop off the guy's head in 1793.

你也可以畅谈在十八世纪中叶,法国民族主义的起源,但是它和法国王朝制联系很紧密,至少直到一七九三年,那个家伙被砍头前都如此

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Or making sure that the person who's thinking to yourself, I'm Shelly Kagan or whatever your name is, that I'm in pain.

还是保全那个心想，我是Shelly，Kagan的家伙，我现在很痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选