I think a good WHCF uses that influence not to promote his own agenda rather to fufill the president's agenda.

但我想一个好的办公室主任,不是用影响力来推动自己的日程,而是完成总统的日程。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Well, I don't know. It seems to me that literary influence is not at all unlike sort of speaking or writing in the wake of a founder of discursivity, but we can let that pass.

我不知道，我觉得,文学的影响力和演讲和写作的影响力还是有相似之处的,尤其是在散漫性被发现之后，但是我们可以不谈这个。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In 1877 a general called Mac-Mahon, who had fought in the 1870/71 war-- you may think that that's not a very French name; there's a strong Irish influence around Bordeaux.

877年麦克马洪元帅,他参加了普法战争--,你可能觉得那不是一个常用的法国名字,爱尔兰对波尔多有着很强的影响力

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

A bold claim would say, "The facts about death, if I thought about them, would change my behavior, but not because it would give me a reason to change my behavior-- " simply because it would influence my behavior."

一个大胆的观点会认为，“关于死亡的事实，如果我考虑了它们，就会改变我的行为，但不是因为它给了我改变行为的理由-,只是因为它影响了我的行为“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选