I could never make a merit of being caviare to the crowd the way my quasi-friend Pound does. I want to reach out, if it were a thing I could do by taking thought.

我不能因为创作大众的阳春白雪而夸耀,就像我的半个朋友庞德一样，我希望伸展开来，如果这是我动脑经就能完成的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It is not virtue or merit that determine the quality of your life.

生命没有什么价值或者德行的高下之分

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In other words, Freud, Sophocles, all of the other versions I have at my disposal, have equal merit as versions, but none of them is a transcendental signified, none of them is a blanket term, and none of them is the causal explanation or meaning of the myth.

换句话说，弗洛伊德，索福克勒斯，还有所有其它供我使用的版本，都用同样的优点，但它们中没有一个是超验所指，没有一个是概括性话语，没有一个是神话的随意解释或意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Plato's dialogues, the Apology as well as the Republic and the Crito are in the broadest sense of the term, an attempt not only to answer the charge against Aristophanes but also defend the cause of philosophy as something of value and merit.

柏拉图的语录《苏格拉底自辩篇》,《理想国》和《克里托篇》,以最广泛的解释看来，不仅试图响应,亚里斯多芬尼斯的控诉,同时还捍卫着,哲学的目标是价值与功绩。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So before, because of all these anti-business rhetoric, once you start intervene, s not just the question of the merit of the particular intervention, s the fact that nobody knows ll be intervening again.

所以之前，因为反商业言论，一旦你开始干预，问题就不仅仅在于，it’,某一桩干预事件的好处，而是没人能预料，it’,政府何时又会出手，when，you’

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选