We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell I guess across the night, eastward over the plains where somewhere an old man with white hair was probably walking towards us with the word and would arrive any minute and make us silent.

我们在美国的最高处大声叫喊,我想整个夜晚，在东部平原,随时可能有一个白发老人,向我们走来,让我们安静。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There's an old Saturday Night Live routine where one of the actors is in the doctor's office, and the doctor gives him the very sad news that he's got two minutes left to live.

有个周六夜现场的老桥段是,一个演员在医务室里，医生告诉他了一个非常悲伤的消息,说他还有两分钟活的时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Odds are if you're an upperclassman, you've had that experience where it's 12 AM, 1 AM, 2 AM, and you're really starting to stress over the incompletion of some problems that for some course, well frankly what this mechanism allows you to do if you're already 90 percent of the way there, you can call it a night and you can put it down and you could feel good nonetheless about where you got to.

对于上游的同学可能觉得无趣，因为他已经具备了这些经验，这时应该开始关注某些课程中,问题的不完整的部分，如果你已经学会了,里面90%的知识，你可以停工,或者把这门课扔到一边。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

That is another question we want to ask And I think about the five days of pure rain, where people were soggy at the first night and it only got worse.

这也是我们想要问的另一个问题,以及“我们怎么成长“，我想到了，And，how，do，we，grow…,连续五天瓢泼大雨的一次,人们在第一天晚上都湿透了，状况越来越糟。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选