We want to respect that person's wish to go on living, we want to make life easier for them if we can with some kinds of assistance.

我们应该尊重人们,生活下去的意愿，我们希望他们,能够通过一些辅助设施，生活地更加轻松。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

If you want to live a life where you spend lots of money on fancy things, you can do that.

如果你想过花大笔钱买奢侈品的生活，你也可以那样做。

街上的售票员 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So if you really want class to make a difference in your life, it's up to you.

所以如果你真的想通过这门课改变生活，一切取决于你。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So maybe if we want to say machines don't have a mental life and couldn't have a mental life, what we really mean is no machine could feel anything emotionally.

所以如果我们说机器,没有也不可能有精神生活,我们真正的意思是,机器不能对事物产生情绪

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And this is what linguists do for a living so if you hear me talking about this and say, "I want to spend the next forty years of my life studying that," you should become a linguist.

这就是语言学家们研究的问题,如果你听了我的讲解然后说,"我想用我的余生来研究这些东西",那你该去做一个语言学家

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

There's a much bigger thing that I'm a part of and if I don't accomplish everything I want to in this life, it's ok.

我属于更大的一个世界,如果我没能在今世完成一切目标,没有关系。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

or like, for, if I have like anything I want to learn in my professional life or whatever, it's really easily available.

或者，如果我在以后职业上有什么要学，也可以在这里很容易找到。

开放式的课程？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Although I enjoyed watching The Simpsons more in this particular moment, in justice, if I were to spend the rest of my life considering the three different video clips shown, I would not want to spend that remainder of my life considering the latter two clips.

虽然此刻我更喜欢看《辛普森一家》,但公平地讲，要是让我用后半生来思索,这三个不同的视频片段的话，我不会愿意用尽我的余生,来思考后两个片段。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

If we want to get anyplace on the question about the nature of the good life, what we need to focus on is not the instrumental goods and bads, but rather the intrinsic goods and bads.

如果我们想在,何为“好的人生的本质“问题上得出结论，我们需要专注的不是利用价值的好与坏，而是固有价值的好与坏。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

.. It's one thing to have-- it's not to say that the best-- if you want your life to be like the plot of a great story, it's not as though you think, " "All right, the denouement must occur at the very last page."

如果你拥有-,不是说最美好的生活-,如果你想让生活像美好的故事情节，它并不像你所想的，“好的，结局一定是在最后一页“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's natural to talk that way, but if we want belief in the soul to help us hold out the possibility at least that there might be life after death, then I think we need to actually say that strictly speaking, it's not that a person is a soul plus a body.

这说起来很轻松,如果我们想要寄托于,相信灵魂的存在,而让死后能够继续活着有据可依,那么我们需要一个严格的说法,不是说一个人是灵魂加肉体

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选