"I had never done that sort of work, and it was not the right job for me.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Actually I had thought I was going north when I went to colleges. We're only after I got to saw the Ohio and cross the Ohio River did people remind me that well, it was maybe north of the Ohio River, it was not the northeast.

其实我以为是在往北走,到斯沃斯莫尔去，只是,等到我看到俄亥俄，过了俄亥俄河,才有人提醒我,那儿可能是俄亥俄河北岸，而不是美国东北部。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So, when I started in college, that wasn't even an option for me and I was interested in a lot of things, chemistry not being one.

因此当我来到大学时,在我所感兴趣的科目里,根本就没有化学。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

for it was not the old man who was a problem for me, but his Evil Eye.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

I can certainly try to write the number 13 there, but bam, my program very likely will crash if this chunk of memory was not given to me previously by the operating system and maybe it is owned by the operating system.

我当然可以在那里写下数字13，但是“嘣“,如果这块内存不是系统预先给我的,我的程序很可能会崩溃,可能这块内存,是系统本身使用的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Not once did I question this fact. My mind told me I was on Mars as your mind tells you that you are upon Earth.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

And certainly Wilfred Owen would not have been, and it seemed to me as though in fact it was important to read Wilfred Owen and to go on thinking and talking about his poetry.

显然威尔弗雷德·欧文没有感到诧异，尽管就我看来事实上,阅读思考讨论欧文的诗歌十分重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He did not know it was the thought of his death that made me smile.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me: Yes! that was the reason In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of a cloud, chilling Annabel Lee And killing my Annabel Lee.

天使，不再如在天堂般快乐，于是把我和她妒嫉：,对，那便是原因，众所周知，在大海边的王国里）,云中刮起了寒风,冻杀了我的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I could not turn my head to see what was behind me.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

But for any procedural things, like, you know, this problem set was not graded properly, and so on, there's no point e-mailing me because I'm going to send it to Mara anyway.

但是任何程序上的问题,比如,这次的作业判得不对 等等,这些情况给我发邮件是没有用的,因为我还是会直接转发给玛拉

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

But do not get me wrong. My friend was not a deadbeat.

VOA: special.2010.12.05

In terms of what mattered to me, what I wanted was not just that I exist, but that I be alive,indeed be a person, indeed be a person with pretty much the same personality.

说到对我来说重要的事情，我不仅仅希望存在，而是希望存活，作为人活着，带着我原有的人格活着。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"When I was reared in the British West Indies my grandmother used to always tell me, you may not be loved by certain forces in a society and you have to understand why.

VOA: special.2011.03.20

Well, it was not very hard for me to draw this red blood cell here, it's just an oval, and one reason I draw it like an oval, is that that's basically what it looks like if you look at it.

我可以很容易的画出,一个血红细胞,就画个椭圆足矣,因为它看上去就是这个样子的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

my grandmother gave me as a gift, "When I was ten, not a bicycle, not a baseball mitt or a bat, she gave me a framed engraving of the derringer pistol that John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate the president.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

"I remember when I was taken into surgery my wife was with me and told me champion you are not leaving us, you have three children,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

"It's not going to change me at all. I'm not going to let it." The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

"I had hoped for more," "Certainly the tone was nice, but it just did not seem to me that on the issue of policies he really learned a great deal in the last couple of week.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28