but once I could see that ethics and political philosophy really could make a difference to the way we live our lives.

但是当我看到，伦理学和政治哲学,的确可以改变我们的生活方式时。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The iniquity of his lips must be burned off by a live angelic coal, that the sinfulness of his lips we could think of it as the sinfulness of his voice, his poetic voice -- will have to be purged.

他邪恶的嘴唇必定会被天国燃烧的煤块烧掉，他的嘴唇的罪孽,我们可以认为是他所说的话的罪孽，他的诗句必将被净化。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's as though we live life for a while, getting a feel for all the wonderful things life could offer us, and then a moment later, as it were, it's snatched away from us.

似乎我们活了一会，感受到了生命能提供给我们的所有美好的事物，然后片刻之后，又好像，被从我们身边夺走。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Well, if it really was true then that if only we faced the facts about our mortality that we would live life rather differently, ? how could it be reasonable for us to disregard those facts?

如果这真的是真的,那么只要我们面对我们必有一死的事实,我们就会选择不同的生活，无视这些事实又怎么可能是合理的？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选