Professor Yoshino explains. "Shakespeare calls this a problem of ocular proof, the idea that we need to see evidence before we believe in it -- and that,oftentimes, when metaphysical questions of guilt or innocence are difficult for us to answer, we have a tendency to reduce them to questions that pertain to physical evidence.

VOA: special.2011.06.06

And what we now see is that-- to see whether that could be the case or not, we've got to get clear in our own minds about whether we believe in a neutral container theory, ... a positive, valuable container theory or-- and among those, between a fantastic and a modest container theory.

现在我们可以看到-,情况是不是这样，我们就要想清楚,我们相信的是中性容器理论，是积极的有价值容器理论还是-,有价值容器理论中的，理想容器理论或保守容器理论。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We're a liberal arts college, so we believe in a broad curriculum, learn about everything.

作为文科学院，我们认为课程的覆盖范围要广，学生要广泛涉猎各个领域的知识。

耶鲁对比哈佛 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He says interest in solar power is growing. "I actually believe we are at the beginning of a surge in activity in investing in renewable energy.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

For example, we had a recession that started here -I believe that was '48--and then it ended in '49.

比如我们来看这一次衰退,大概从48年开始,于49年结束

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"And I believe we need a strong Republican Party that is not just anchored in the base, but has built on the base to include more individuals."

VOA: standard.2009.05.24

Milton has expended, we know, a considerable amount of energy in establishing what he wants us, I am assuming, to believe is the divine authority behind the poem.

我们知道弥尔顿花费了，大量精力阐释他希望我们相信的东西，我设想，他要我们相信在这部诗篇的背后有无上神权的存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"The American people believe in immigration,". "But they also believe that we cannot tolerate a situation where people come to the United States in violation of the law."

VOA: standard.2009.06.19

One of the things we are taught is a verse of Koran, in English it's as "all you who believe, fasting has been prescribed for you as was prescribed for those before you."

在《可兰经》里有一句诗是，大意是，虔诚的人们啊，斋戒不仅是你需要做的,也是你的前人所需要做的“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"That's going to require a lot of restructuring. We're prepared,as a government, to help that process if we believe it is going to provide the basis for a stronger industry in the future.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

It's clear that we all do believe in the possibility, indeed, more than a mere possibility, the actuality of meetings that occur without us.

显然我们都相信这种可能，且不仅仅是一种可能，会议确实在我们不在的情况下举行了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"We did not anticipate that there would be an increase in this group and we believe it may be an indicator of a new risk factor for gastric cancer which has not yet been identified."

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

Second thing, we started talking about the periodic table and I believe that it's a hallmark of any educated person in the 21st century who is technically literate to know the periodic table by heart.

第二点，我们之前讨论过元素周期表,我相信这是个标志性的特征,对于那些在21世纪里,用心去学习,元素周期表的人来说。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And I still believe that in Africa we have been going through this kind of pressure for a pretty long time, so I believe that when it comes we can handle it and lift the cup on Friday,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

So in fact the model, in addition to the sort of nerdiness of the model, it ended up with a result we kind of believe in.

所以实际上这个模型,除了那些烦人的部分,它的结论是值得我们参考的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

(SAYING...) "We believe that people can reset their biases by taking a proactive step, by choosing to educate themselves more about women in these fields, by putting up positive images of women in science in their classrooms and in their homes."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

I just believe in a very limited form of democracy whereby we have a constitution that severely limits the scope of what decisions can be made democratically.

我只是支持有限民主,通过宪法来严格限制,可以由民主决议的事项范围。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

At a media event on the eve of her official meetings here, Clinton said she believes Pakistan has, in the recent months, been making real efforts to curb extremists that have been operating on its territory: "In the past six months, in the course of working with the government of Pakistan, we believe that there is a commitment to fighting terrorism that permeates the entire government.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

We have no right to put you in a circumstance where you believe you killed somebody and then tell you it was just pretend-- we just made you kill somebody.

但我们没权把别人置于这种境地,让他们以为自己杀了人,然后又告诉他们，那个人只是装死的-,我们叫你杀了人。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

After the meetings, Mitchell told journalists it is imperative to achieve a full and comprehensive peace in the region to improve the lives of everyone "We believe that a full comprehensive peace represents the best way to help all of the people of the region achieve the security, the peace,and the prospect for prosperity for individual citizens that all deserve,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

Similarly,I believe that if we wish to prevent drug abuse in teenagers who grow up in a neighborhood that puts them at risk, the effective prevention is not remedial.

同样，如果我们要防止,青少年受不良的社会环境影响,而滥用药物的情况，但预防的效果不佳。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Do we believe him in this respect, I mean an important question, do we believe him again, ? is he being sincere in this or is he using this as it were a kind of rhetoric ? with which to envelope himself?

我们相信他这番言论吗，我意指一个重要的问题，我们再次自问是否要相信他，他这么说时是否诚恳,或只是利用这类的修辞,来包裹自己？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And the crucial question, presumably, is, "Should we believe in the existence of a soul?"

而最为关键的,也许是,我们应该相信灵魂是存在的吗

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We've got, I believe a real problem on our hands in the economy.

我相信,在经济方面这次我们真遇到了麻烦。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And this is a logical distinction we need to draw, even if you believe in souls.

我们必须得从逻辑上区分清楚,即便你真的相信灵魂的存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Hold off again, for a few minutes at least, on the question, so what should we believe ? in the body view, the personality view?

等等，先抽几分钟，讨论一下这个问题，我们应该,相信什么？肉体论？人格论？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If we ask ourselves, "What reasons do we have to believe in a soul?"

如果我们扪心自问,我们凭什么相信灵魂存在

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We are, as I said, early in the semester when I said I'm a physicalist, I believe that people are just machines, but we're not just any old machine.

我们是，就像我之前说我是物理主义者时，我相信人只是机器，但我们不是旧机器。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There is some reason to believe that in the population known as "psychopaths," a population we'll return to later on when we discuss mental illness, this sort of instinctive empathy is broken and the pain of others just doesn't bother them very much.

我们有理由相信,在一类被称为“精神变态者“的人当中“,我们以后会继续讨论这类人,当我们讲到精神疾病时，他们就没有这种本能的移情,他们对别人的痛苦无动于衷。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

My point here was only to say we shouldn't be so quick to think that we have to believe in the existence of a soul in order to explain our having free will.

我的观点不过就是说我们不应该这么草率地,认为我们不得不相信,灵魂的存在,从而解释我们有自由意志

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选