I can rationalize all three of these decisions and hope that Barry won't fire me.

对三种情况我都给出了合理解释,并且我希望巴里不会解雇我

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

If you squeeze the trigger of a gun really hard and really fast, it doesn't fire any faster or harder than if you just squeezed it gently.

快速有力地扣动扳机,并不比你轻扣扳机,射出的更加快速或更加有力

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The fire chief was asked, CEO well, he wasn't exactly the fire chief. I guess he was the CEO.

记者问消防队长，准确地说不是消防队长，我估计是。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

If things weren't working out by the end of the summer he'd fire me and I go back to Stanford for business school, that didn't sound too terrible.

如果不行的话，他就炒了我呗,我还可以会斯坦福继续读商科，这听起来又不会太差。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

But they won't put out everybody's fire.

但不会见火就扑。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选