Now the question is "how does it expand" and "why is it so difficult for us to understand, accept, assimilate and live according to the fact that we can make a difference, if we understand that what we need to understand is how change happens.

问题是“它如何扩大“,以及为什么我们难以理解，我们能够做出改变这个事实,并接受，被同化以及据此生活，如果我们能了解我们需要理解的,是改变如何发生。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But despite the fact that it's modest, if everyone in the US would give according to that scale, it would yield 500 billion dollars.

尽管每个人的捐款不多，如果在美国，每个人都根据这个标准表捐款，那将会是5000亿美元。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Now,remember,according to the personality theory of personal identity, what makes it me is the fact that it's the same evolving personality.

请记住根据个人认同感的人格理论，定义我是我的是相同的进化中的人格。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

To see that,recall the fact that according to the personality view, as a theory of personality identity, the crucial point isn't that my personality stay identical.

要明白这一点，回想一下根据人格理论，作为个人认同感的理论，关键点不在于人格要保持不变。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

When the headache is occurring Now, according to the deprivation account the badness of death consists in the fact that when you're dead you are deprived of the goods of life ? So when is death bad for you?

当头疼发生时,现在根据剥夺解释,死亡的坏处在于,当你死了的时候,你便被剥夺了生命力的好处这个事实,所以什么时候死亡对你来说不好？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Similarly, then, according to the physicalist, talk of the mind, despite the fact that we have a noun there, is just a way of talking about the abilities of the body to do various things.

相似地,物理主义观点认为,心灵,即便这个名词的确存在,只是我们表达,肉体各种行为能力的一种方式

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

According to the deprivaton account, death is bad, when it's bad, because of the fact that it deprives us of the good things in life, insofar as we would have continued to get good things in life.

根据剥夺解释，死亡是坏的时才是坏的，因为它剥夺了我们生的美好，在我们还能继续从生命中获得美好时。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选