Error is not a poetic elaboration on things which somehow, as it does in Plato's view, undermines the integrity of that truth identified by philosophers.

错误并不是对事物一种诗化的详细阐释，正如柏拉图的观，这种阐释以某种方式削减了，被哲学家认同的真理，的诚实性。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So, I went to go look up the authoritative source on this, and so I looked this up, and I want to give you a sense of what the truth is.

这样，我查阅了与此相关的权威资料，查到了这些，我想给你们一种对于事实真相的认知感。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It would be far nearer the truth to say that some are born with saddles on their backs and others booted and spurred to ride them."

这样说也许更贴切,有些人生来就烙有奴隶的印记,而有些人生来就是统治他们的"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

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

Probably never that easy but really, you're just not going to lose, and the truth of the matter is that hoplites beat non-hoplites in all battles that are fought on flat land in battles that the Greeks fight in.

也许不是那么的容易,不过总会胜利的,事实上,在所有希腊人打的平原战中,方阵部队无一例外地击败了非方阵部队

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

You could put everything on this line, I think there may be, I'm not really allowed to do this on this model, the one thing I can't do is, part of the truth is that Bud Light might be down here somewhere but I'm not allowed to do that.

你可以把任何东西放在这条线上,我想那也许是,我实际上并没有权利在这个模型中这么做,我不能做的是,起码百威淡啤酒应该在这上的某个位置,但我没权利这么做

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Well, Wright himself described that difficulty of writing his autobiography, and these are the terms he used: I found that to tell the truth is the hardest thing on earth, harder than fighting in a war, harder than taking part in a revolution.

莱特自己描述了,自传写作的艰辛，他如是说：,“我发现说真话是世界上最难的事，比参加战争难，比参加革命难，如果尝试写自传。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选