"Picking your child up out of a crib who's passed away, I mean,she was lifeless, and heavy,and limp.

VOA: standard.2010.02.08

.. So, why didn't somebody think of-- you're sitting there with your child playing with a wheeled toy and then you're going out to carry some heavy stuff and you're dragging it along the ground.

因此，为什么有人想不到-,当你和玩着玩具车的小孩,坐在一起,然后你出去,拿一些很沉的东西,你却是生拉硬拽地把它放在地上拖过来。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Similarly, if you're dealing with immature humans and you want your child to get you a beer, you can't just sit, wait for the kid to give you a beer and uncap the bottle " and say, "Excellent. Good. Hugs."

类似的，如果你要训练的是未成年人,如果你想让你的孩子帮你拿一罐啤酒，你就不能只是坐着，等孩子把啤酒拿给你,然后你打开瓶盖,说，“太棒了，来抱一下“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"And he said I will teach girls, you're a traveler,not a tourist and approach your trip as a young child might approach a mud puddle.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

But now if you have a twenty-ounce bottle, your cue for when the drinking event ends is completely different than when I was a child, and its two and a half times different then when I was child, and so people have become calibrated to what difference sizes are.

但现在如果你喝了一瓶二十盎司可乐,会觉得现在的饮用量,和我小时候已经完全不同了,是我小时候的2.5倍,人们已经校正了其中差异的大小

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"As a mother my heart went out to all of them. I cannot imagine what it would feel like to know that your child was in prison, for now 100 days, with very little contact between you and them.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05