And where will people come from that, if they all follow the psychology of fear and ? self-interest that Hobbes wants to instill in us?

如果都按霍布斯灌输给我们的那样想，时刻保持着恐惧和利己的心态,那又从哪招募那些消防员，警察和军人呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

We won't be having a festival and we won't need to do all the decorations just like they see in the movie and our film. We will be inviting our pals down the hall to come in and participate all the festivities.

我们自己不会庆祝节日,我们不需要像影片中看到的那样,装扮房屋,我们会邀请,我们的朋友,进来一起庆祝节日。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

All the sick people will come to you to buy life insurance and they will turn out to have a higher death rate than the population at large.

所有生病的人都会向你购买人寿险,而他们比普通人群,有着更高的死亡率

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You can sign up with the Salem Fire Corporation, pay a yearly subscription fee, and if your house catches on fire, they will come and put out the fire.

你可以和塞伦消防公司签约，每年支付会员费，如果你的房子着火，他们会来灭火。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Another thing that you need to understand about these farms, if you're going to grasp their significance for the society that will come, is that they are small, really small.

关于这些农场,另一点要搞清楚的是,如果你要理解它们,所带来的社会意义,那是很细微和缓慢的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

That could be an epigraph on this course, if you like, because in the end when this Civil War will finally come both sides will say over and over and over again that they are only fighting for liberty.

你愿意的话,也可以把这两个词记下来,因为在最后,当内战最终打响的时候,双方都会一遍又一遍地重申,他们只是为了自由而战

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

So, these rulers have a coercive ability in creating, and I'll come back to this, large standing armies that will be arriving not immediately, they're not arriving by train or being helicoptered in at some distant command, but they will get there if there's trouble.

这些统治者们以铁腕构建极权,稍后我会谈到这一点,一只大规模的军队,在当时很难进行远程调度,因为他们没法坐火车或者搭直升机立刻赶到,但他们最终会到达事发处

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Any nobleman who wants to can say, "We ought to have a council," And then that council will come together and do whatever business they wish to do. The council, however, is limited to noblemen, to these basileis.

任何一个贵族都可以,我们应该开个政务会,那么就可以集会,讨论任何事项,但是,政务会,受君主和贵族的控制

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选