And the yardstick that we're at least doing our best to apply is one of measuring up the pleasure and subtracting the pain.

我们尽最大努力去应用的标准,是汇总快乐，再减去痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

At best, one could say Hobbes is a kind of part-time liberal at best.

为此，可能有人要说霍布斯至多,也就是个业余自由主义者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Hard to believe today, but Sicily was one of the major granaries of the Mediterranean world at that time, tremendously fruitful, able to grow the best possible crops, very good wheat and so on.

在今天很难想象,但西西里是当时地中海地区,最主要的粮仓之一,产物丰盛,能够种植最好的谷物,上乘的小麦等等

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In one study they looked at a housing project in Manhattan and they asked people where their best friend was and 90% of them said, "My best friend is in the same building as me," and 50% of them says the same floor.

在一个针对一栋曼哈顿住宅的研究中,他们问住户他们最好的朋友住在哪,90%的人说，“我最好的朋友和我住同一栋楼”,50%说住在同一层楼。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选