But the mere fact that they would change your behavior doesn't yet tell you whether they're reason-generating facts.

但仅仅是它们会改变你的行为这个事实,并没有告诉你它们是否是产生原因的事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

to the process whereby the heavenly angels not only eat food but they also digest it; and Milton lets us know, whether we want to know or not, how those angels actually excrete the food they have taken in.

去描述天堂的天使不只吃食物而且要消化它的过程,弥尔顿让我们知道，不管我们想不想，这些天使怎样排泄出他们吃的食物。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There are plenty of pro-slavery writers who also, to some extent, whether out of guilt or out of awareness, saw slavery as wrong, but they saw it as a problem more for white people than for black people.

还有一些亲奴制的作者,在某种程度上,或不知廉耻或未曾意识到,他们错误地看待了奴隶制,他们更看重奴隶制对白人的影响,而不是对黑人种族本身的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

These students went ahead and did wonderful things, whether it was right out of college, whether it was once they established themselves, but there was always this,the back of their mind, very often fore of their minds, ?" "How can I make this world a better place?"

这些学生勇往直前，做了非常棒的事，无论是校外校内的，无论他们是否刚建立起自身，但可以确定的是，他们潜藏的思想，很多时候会涌现出来，“我怎样才能使这个世界变得更美好“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And Joseph knows that it would decimate his father Jacob to lose Rachel's only remaining son, but he's testing his brothers to see whether they have reformed since the day that they sold him into slavery.

约瑟夫知道这将打击他父亲雅各布,如果失去Rachel唯一剩下的儿子，但他只想考验兄弟看他们是否改过自新,在他们把他变卖为奴之后。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选