This left him in a depression for five years, but at age 25, what helped lift him out of this depression is that he met Harriet Taylor.

之后的五年一直陷于抑郁，但二十五岁时，他遇到了海利特·泰勒，从此摆脱抑郁。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Plato himself, remember, made a number of trips to Sicily to serve as the advisor to a king there, Dionysius, and all of these missions failed and left him deeply dispirited.

记不记得柏拉图自己，曾多次旅行到西西里岛,从事国王顾问的工，Dionysius王，他所有的使命都未竟成功,并使他深深感到气馁。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

One by one he subdued his father's trees By riding them down over and over again Until he took the stiffness out of them - And not one but hung limp, not one was left for him to conquer.

他一株一株地征服他父亲的树,一次又一次地把它们骑在胯下,直到把树的倔强劲儿完全制服：,一株又一株都垂头丧气地低下来。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

There's an old Saturday Night Live routine where one of the actors is in the doctor's office, and the doctor gives him the very sad news that he's got two minutes left to live.

有个周六夜现场的老桥段是,一个演员在医务室里，医生告诉他了一个非常悲伤的消息,说他还有两分钟活的时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He lived in the summers on a country estate outside St. Petersburg, in a beautiful chateau. And his uncle owned the chateau down the road, and actually left it to him when he was a very young man.

夏天的时候他住在圣彼得堡外漂亮的乡村城堡，那是他叔叔的城堡，并在Naboko很小的时候就把它送给了他。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Let me just call this top one-- Jones' torso with the left half of Shelly Kagan's brain-- let's call him Lefty.

让我叫上面的这个-,带有Shelly，Kagan左脑的Jones的躯体-,我们叫他小左。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选