Now I will also say that a five-page paper written well can trump an eight-page paper written poorly any day of the week.

我还要说的是,写得好的五页报告永远胜过写得差的八页报告。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

当痛苦的人,胜过当快乐的猪;,当痛苦的苏格拉底胜过当快乐的傻瓜。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

To talk to other people about them, rather than just be thinking constantly about how miserable I am because my girlfriend just left.

向别人倾诉更有帮助，要胜过总是想着,被女朋友甩了多么的惨。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

If you don' t seek out the conflict, you won' t excel.

缺少冲突和矛盾，就没有办法胜过他人。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

Who can deviate and do better here?

谁能偏离并且胜过他

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Should it trump all other goods or does toleration reach a point when it ceases to be toleration and becomes in fact a kind of soft nihilism that can extend liberty to everything precisely because it takes nothing very seriously.

它胜过所有的好吗,或是容忍在达到一定的临界点时,就会崩解,而变成某种柔性虚无主义,且几乎援用到所有事物上,因为它对任何事都不是很认真。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It's just that the numbers outweigh the minority.

只不过，多数在数量上胜过少数。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Philia Civic friendship civic philia is in other words not without a strong element of what might be thought of as sibling rivalry in which each citizen strives to outdo the others for the sake of the civic good.

公民友情，或说公民,并非不具一般所认为的,手足竞争等强烈元素,即每位公民都努力,要胜过其它人，以谋求城市的利益。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选