Suppose we say then that to be alive as a person is to be able to engage in P-functioning.

假设我们说作为人而活着,就是有人格功能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In 1718, he ordered a man kept alive after being horribly tortured, so he could be tortured some more and suffer as long as humanly possible.

718年 他下令救活一名遭受酷刑的男子,却是为了尽可能长时间地折磨他

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Arthroscopic surgery in one sense is a fancy example of that, a way of looking inside a joint to see what's happening inside while the person is alive and without hurting them.

关节镜手术就是一个极佳的例子,使用该技术我们可以一窥关节内部,而不影响病人的生命,也不会过分痛苦

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

So, it's something like the life of a person that, when we say, when there are people who are inclined to say, that being alive per so is valuable, presumably what they mean is being alive as a person per se is valuable.

所以这差不多就是人的生活，当说到，当人们说到，活着本身是有价值的，我们便假设它的意思是,作为人活着的本身是有价值的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The butterfly is the perfect work of art because it is both a representation and alive. It has eyes on its wings.

这只蝴蝶是一个完美的艺术作品,因为它不但是画像，也是,鲜活的，它的翅膀上有眼睛。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

If a slave dies you got to buy a new machine, and while he's alive you got to feed him.

如果一个奴隶死掉了,你就得买台新的,他活着时你还要养着他

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So I claim if you look carefully there's a little box in here that's still alive.

如果你们仔细观察,会发现还剩一个小方格

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

We're always finding some woman alive who claims she was married to a Confederate soldier.

我们总能找到些仍然健在的老太太,号称自己曾与南部邦联士兵结过婚

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

I have to tell you that Levi-Strauss, who is still alive, a very old man, expresses great bitterness in his old age about what he takes to be the displacement of the importance of his own work by what happened subsequently.

现在列维仍然在世，年事已高，晚年他表达了,自己对作品的重要性,后来被取代的痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But in fact, in his own way, he's talking about his inability ; to keep his child alive there; in a kind of metaphorical way, speaking of his failure to build a fence to last.

但事实上，以他自己的方式，他在诉说自己的无能,不能让孩子活下来;,以一种象征性的方式，谈论自己不能制作出一个一直在那的栅栏。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And I said, wait a minute, is that guy still alive?

我说,等等,难道他还活着

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You are not a psychopath, and you are alive.

说明你不是精神病人，也还没死。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

What a time to be alive, huh? Yeah.

现场演奏,多好啊

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Modest container theories, that is, say there's a value to being alive, but it can in principle be outweighed.

保守的有价值容器理论认为，活着有一定的价值，但是按道理它可以被超越。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Either I don't exist or I'm not alive or I'm not a person, whichever precise way we have to put it.

要么我不存在，要么我不是活着的或不再作为人，就在这三种方式里选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He says: It had only been through books, at best no more than vicarious cultural transfusions, that I had managed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.

并加以思索，他说，：,“唯有通过读书，这种让文化在我心中产生共鸣的方式,才能维系我生存的勇气。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选