And many people rightfully so questioned the veracity, the value of these questionnaires, because it is subjective-- ? are we measuring something real?

很多人置疑问卷的，真实性和价值，因为它是主观的-,我们是在测量真实的东西吗？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

There's a reason we like sugar, and there's a real reason when we like the two of them together in something like ice cream.

我们喜欢糖也是有原因的,我们喜欢二者兼备的食物,比如像是冰淇淋,是非常有道理的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

This is a meditation on both the joy and the loss of literary substitution for the real or for the truth, the substitution of abstract pattern for something like comprehensible meaning.

对为了现实或是真理,和有着某些可理解含义的抽象模式，的文学替代的思考,在这里她有些被这宝石般的线索吸引住了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

if that's something you're familiar with - in which the interaction of real people with what are called "Toons" in that film is part of the film's pleasure. The boundary between different levels of reality is crossed.

如果你们对这个比较熟悉的话,在电影里一个被称为“Toons“的卡通形象和真人互动“,这是那部电影的好玩之处,在那里不同层面现实的边界交叉了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Since it's available only to accredited investors, you can't be advertising because everyone would see it; that's why the financing of a lot of this real estate is something of a mystery, because they can't talk openly about it.

由于DPP仅仅面向可信投资者,如果做广告的话,便人尽皆知,这就是为什么很多商业地产的金融活动,那么神秘,原因就是,人们不能公开谈论它

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选