And so, arguably, the fact that life is precious, that it won't endure, could actually increase its value for us.

所以，可以说，生命是珍贵的，它将不再这个事实，事实上可能增加了其对我们来说的价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And we might be attracted to the thought that the value of life is increased by its very preciousness.

我们可能会被这种想法所吸引,那就是生命的价值是因为它的珍贵而增长的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So you're implementing this black box, and if its purpose in life is to actually return a value, you have to tell the compiler what kind of value to expect, and this is going to have ripple effects.

你在实现这个黑盒子，如果它的目的是,返回一个值，你必须告诉编译器你期望的是什么类型的值，这个将是一个连锁反应。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The abstract is not life and everywhere draws out its contradictions. You can refute Hegel but not the Saint or the Song of Experience.

抽象的不是人生，处处都,显露出矛盾，你可以反驳黑格尔,但不能反驳圣人或经验之歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Levi-Strauss writes: Whatever may have been the moment and the circumstances of its appearance in the scale of animal life, language could only have been born in one fell swoop.

列维，施特劳斯写道：,不论语言是何时何种环境下,在动物的历史中诞生的，语言只可能是一刹那间诞生。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Each book, each writer, each voice reflects another thread in the rich tapestry of human experience, human response to life and its puzzles, human reflection on the sublime and the depraved.

每本书，每个作者，每种声音,反映了纷繁人类历程画卷中的一个侧面,人类对生活和生活困惑的反应，人类对高尚和腐败的思考。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

A Hobbesian state, paradoxically, still requires from its citizens, men and women prepared to fight to risk everything in the defense of their way of life.

如此一来，矛盾便凸显出来了,即霍布斯理想中的国家,也照样要求他的人民时刻准备牺牲一切,来维护他们的生活方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Next time, we're turning to a very different kind of writing, a writing equally preoccupied with its relationship to the world, to life, but very differently approaching that problem.

下次，我们将关注一部完全不同的,作品，一部同样让人着迷的，与生活和世界以完全不同的,方式产生关联的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So some parents now are choosing to save the cord blood, have it frozen, locked away somewhere just in case its useful to their child later in life.

一些父母现在选择保存脐带血,冷冻储存起来,保存在某个地方以防万一,也许孩子将来用得着

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

That is, the vector itself has a life of its own.

也就是说,矢量本身是独立的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

So what happens is, Freud described a lot of normal life in terms of different ways we use to keep that horrible stuff from the id making its way to consciousness.

弗洛伊德描述了，很多我们会在日常生活中使用的方法,我们用这些方法,来阻止来自本我的原始欲望,进入到意识之中。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now, I've been saying kind things about Western civilization, but I would not want to deny that there is a dark side to the western experience and its way of life.

我刚刚一直说的都是西方文明光辉的一面,但我是不得不承认,西方文明,也有它黑暗的一面

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

That's the focus of our attention in Genesis, and it's only at the end of the story that the tree of life appears again in the passage that is emphasizing its permanent inaccessibility.

这点，是我们读《创世纪》时，应该特别注意的一点,直到故事的结束，生命树才又出现,是为了强调人类，永远无法接近它。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

From its very beginnings philosophy and the city philosophy and political life have stood in a sort of tension with one another.

从一开始，哲学与城邦,哲学与政治生活，彼此之间,即处于一种紧张的关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It's a very tempting view to think, what makes life worth having and the only thing worth having for its own sake, is having pleasure and avoiding pain.

它也是一种很有诱惑力的观点，什么让生命值得拥有，而唯一,因其自身品质值得拥有的东西，就是享受快乐，避免痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And so even if, you might say, the way my life is going in terms of its contents is bad, being alive per se might still be a good thing.

所以，就算，我的生活内容方面非常糟糕，活着本身也许仍然是件好事。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选