The second thing that I will argue for in addition to studying what works is also to study the best.

第二，我认为,除了要研究可行的方法，还要研究最优秀的个体。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And what I argue is these are our values, these are ideals, these are the things we look up to.

我要说明的是,这些是我们的价值观，是理想，是我们所向往的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

So one of the first things that I'll argue for in terms of " healthy research is "let's also focus on what is working".

首先，我认为在健康研究方面,主要的问题是“让我们注重可行的方法。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And what I'm going to try to do in this class is argue for those views.

在这节课里我试图要做什么,是要争论的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Even if we locate a source of some kind of genuine strength, authoritative strength, it's still usually possible, as it is for Satan, to argue that that power is really at base just the concealed product of custom or what we would think of as cultural construction.

有时即使我们找到了一种真实的，权威的力量，还是有可能像撒旦所辩解的那样，这种力量其实只是,约定俗成的规矩教条的隐秘产物,或者如我们所想来自文化建构。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, what you have to imagine is sometime back, I would argue, in the Mycenaean Period, somebody began making up one of these songs, telling the story of Greeks going to attack the city of Troy.

所以,你们想象一下在过去的某时,我当然是说在迈锡尼文明时期,有人开始创作这些诗歌中的某一首,它描述了希腊人攻打特洛伊的故事

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

what Tolstoy is trying to convince us of, what he's trying to argue, by illustrating the claim, I take it, that Tolstoy is making, is that most of us are actually in Ivan Ilyich's boat.

托尔斯泰试图通过这个故事，阐述给我们，要说服我们相信的东西，我认为他要说的是,我们中大多数人都像Ivan，Ilyich一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选