"The one thing which one can say about this election -- and we haven't been able to say this for any election within living memory -- is that the only certain thing is that we cannot predict the outcome, even on the day before the poll."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

It's going to say,look,the personality theory of personal identity has an implication that we cannot possibly accept.

这是说个人认同感的人格理论,含有一个我们可能无法接受的暗示。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If this theory you might say of sort of cataclysmic change is true we cannot rule out the possibility that a constitution like ours or even identical to ours existed at some point in the ancient past in the far distant past that Aristotle knew about.

你们可能认为，如果这个理论,即剧烈变革的理论为真,我们就不能排除,像美国宪法,或相同于美国之其它现存宪法,早在远古。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"Well it seems to me if we train officers to do a particular thing and put them into situations where that training is required and then we see pictures of them doing what they have been trained to do, we cannot simply wash our hands of it at that point and say how awful it is,right?" "We have to share some of that responsibility.

VOA: standard.2009.04.21