And although you were a freedman, - which was lower in status than a free person-- - there were some privileges you couldn't have-- your children would be, if they were born after you'd been freed, would be free people, not freed.

虽然奴隶成为了自由人，自由人的社会地位低于自由民-,有一些权利无法享受-,自由人的孩子，如果是出生于奴隶被释放后的，则会成为自由民，而不是自由人。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

It's better to have been born than never to-- even though that's followed by death-- than never to have been born at all.

出生还是好于永远不-,就算生后即是死-,还是好于永远都不出生。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He's born, in fact, twenty years before the American Civil War.

他是在美国内战结束后的二十年出生的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

These cubs are not going to survive once they are born so the female's best strategy is to get rid of them and start anew.

一旦幼仔出生后不能生存,雌狮的最好方式,是摆脱掉它们，开始新生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I was born in Japan and I was there until I was ten. And then I came to United States with my family. And as an adult, I went back to Japan with a question "Who am I?" Am I a Japanese?

我出生在日本,10岁后便和家人离开来到了美国,作为一个成人，我带着一个问题回到了日本,我是谁？，我是日本人？

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Better to have not had any of it, better to have not been born at all, say the pessimists, than to have this combination package of life followed by death.

最好还是什么都不要有，最好是根本就别出生，悲观主义者如是说，以免有生后即是死这样一个组合。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选