That is what really got me started." Starting from this guitar made out of a cardboard box and fishing line,and this one, bearing serial number "one."

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

You've had a hard life. That hard life, you think, is really what made you into the writer you are.

你的生活很艰难，你觉得正是那种艰难让你成为了作家。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He says something, and he doesn't really know where those words come from. He doesn't really know what made his granny so angry about those words.

他不知道自己说了什么,更不知道为什么,这会让祖母抓狂。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

When she was made to look unattractive they didn't really care what kind of information she gave.

当她打扮不漂亮时,她怎么评价，他们也不怎么在乎。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It may have been true or maybe not, but it made people start looking at the past, what really happened between 1940 and 1945, or '44, end of '44, what really happened.

也许是真的也许是假的,但是让人们开始回首往事,在1940年到1945年间到底发生了什么,或者44年,44年末,到底发生了什么

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

What all this suggests, then, and this is a point that I really made before, is that the best understanding of the deprivation account doesn't say that what's bad is the mere fact that we're going to die.

这说明，也是我之前强调过的一点，就是对“剥夺解释“的最好的理解,不是说人终将一死的事实,是一件坏事。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选