He says that as a child he did not understand why his father did not live with him and his mother all of the time.

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After all, this argument really did show the immortality of the soul, why would he need to offer a further argument?

毕竟如果这个论证真正的,解释了灵魂的不朽，他为何还要提出进一步的论证呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Now as an aside, I'll admit this is a completely useless program, much like the first couple of ones we did because why would you write a program just to solve this?

说点题外话，我承认这是一个完全无用的程序，跟我们之前写的两个程序一样,我们为什么需要写个程序来解决这个数学运算呢？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Why did a Southern strategy in modern American political history re-invent the Republican Party?

为什么在美国政治历史上,南方人重新引入了共和党的概念呢

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Or a football player--when you're running down the field, why did you go to this way instead of that way ? when you're running down the field?

或者是问一个橄榄球运动员--当你在操场上奔跑时，你为什么要往这边跑而不是那边呢,当你在操场上跑的时候？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It is the heroic ethic. At a certain place, I think a couple of places in the Iliad, Achilles tell's us, "Why did you come here to fight at Troy?"

这是一种英雄主义的伦理观,在某个地方,我认为在《伊利亚特》中这样的地方不少,阿基里斯告诉我们,"你为什么来到这里与特洛伊作战"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Given the very different route that Prussia, Austria, Russia, Sweden and France went with a centralization of absolute rule, why did it work out so differently for England/Britain and the Netherlands?

在选择政体时,当普鲁士,奥地利,俄国,瑞典,法国,都伴随着中央集权走上绝对主义国家的道路,为什么英国和荷兰会如此与众不同呢

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So, let's begin with another of those scenes on 213 that Nabokov points out to us, the Kasbeam barber. Why did it take him a month to come up with the Kasbeam barber? What's going on in this tiny snippet that's so important? So here it is.

那么，我们从213页纳博科夫向我们指出的另一个,场景开始：理发师加斯比姆，为什么他花了一个月的时间,来创造理发师加斯比姆的形象呢？这个小片段里,发生了什么重要的事情呢？我们来看这里：

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选