I don't know a word of Russian, and so I actually try to avoid using the rather well-known Russian equivalents for these terms because I feel like an idiot.

我不懂俄语，所以我不用俄语读,而就用这个英语中通行的俄语替代词,这样感觉是不是挺傻的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's a way to avoid the argument; although, for what it's worth, I should mention I don't myself believe that it's false that we have free will.

这是回避这条论证的一种方法,尽管这条论证有它自身的价值,应该说,我个人认为,人有自由意志,并没有错

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

in his great depiction of hell in Books One and Two) to avoid the standard epic scenes of the torture of the damned, for example, with which we're familiar if we've read Homer or Virgil or, of course, Dante much later.

在他第一和第二册书对地狱的精彩描述）,去避免提及传统史诗中关于恶者被折磨的场景，例如我们所熟悉的那些场景,如果我们读过荷马的，维吉尔的，当然还有但丁的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We tend to look at human behavior as a matter of providing rational incentives for human action while most people, in fact, are driven by a need for esteem and a desire to avoid humiliation.

通常，我们倾向于以理性地分析其动机为标准,来看待人的行为是否正确合理,而其他人则是以赢得自尊和避免羞辱为标准,来判断一个人的行为是否合理。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选