If you didn't really believe that your body was going to die, why would you ever bother writing a will?

如果人们不相信自己的肉体会消亡，为什么要花功夫写遗嘱？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Would you ever want to sit down to dinner with any of the people in this novel?

你会不会想和书中的,任何一个人物共进晚餐？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Now how in the world would you ever notate that?

你怎么可能把刚才这段音乐,用符号记录下来呢

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It's a question of saying, "How on earth would you ever have the concept 'heterosexual' if you didn't have the concept 'homosexual' in place?" Right? The absolute interdependency of these concepts is, again, central to her argument and to her understanding of things.

这就像是说，如果首先没有“同性恋“这个概念,又怎么会有“异性恋“这个概念呢’,是吧，这些概念的绝对依赖性，是她论点的中心，同时也是她理解事物的中心轴。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Everyone would do that, no one would ever hold some other portfolio ... because you can see that this line is the lowest-- it's far--you want to get to the left as far as possible.

所有人都会这么做，没人会选择其他的投资组合,因为你们可以看到这条线是最低的-,你希望他越靠左越好。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Well a calorie technically--and this is again, not something that we would ever quiz you on but I just thought you might be interested to know-- that it's the energy required to raise one gram of water one degree centigrade, and we'll talk in a minute about you might go about measuring that.

理论上一卡路里,我重复下,这不是考试内容,但我想你们会感兴趣,一卡路里,是将一克水提升1℃所需要的热量,过会儿我们会讲如何测量

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选