What other people call content is a device like any other, and it engages in the struggle for dominance with all the other devices that one can identify as aspects of literature."

别人所说的内容只是另一种方法而已，它为了争夺支配地位历经斗争,胜利的那些才能被称为文学性“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It is the product, the creation of the people or of what we might call, in Jeffersonian language, it is the product of the consent of the governed.

我们可以说它是人民权力的产物,但若用杰斐逊的话讲，我们也可以说它是，统治者们互相默许下的产物。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So on the monist view-- which we'll call "Physicalism," because it says that what people just are, are these physical objects--on the physicalist view, a person is just a body that can...you fill in the blank.

所以一元论观点,我们称作其为"物理主义",因为它认为人只不过,是个物理对象,物理主义认为,人只是可以...你能举出很多例子

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Like when they devised the first engines or the first nuclear reactors, it didn't work so well at first and then from the experience of many people working on it, over many years, a body of knowledge emerges and that's what we call technology.

这和发明出第一个发动机,或者第一个核反应堆时一样,最开始总是存在很多问题,但随着很多人不断努力去完善它,一种理论体系才得以不断发展,这就是我们所说的科技

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选