In other words, aren't I going to be hopelessly prejudiced about what I read if I've got some sort of preliminary conception of what it's all about?

话句话说，难道对于文本的话题有些初步概念,我就会怀有偏见吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Nobody really believed he still had these sympathies, but the whole question was, why didn't he fess up?

没有人真的相信他仍怀有这些同情，但问题是，他为什么不坦率地承认？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The city, as Aristotle understands, will always exist in a world with other cities or other states, based on different principles that might be hostile to one's own.

城市，如亚里士多德所认为，将永远会,和其它城市或国家同时存在，根于不同的管理原则,可能还会对自己人怀有敌意。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and all they are willing to endure."

如何获得，如何保持，如何重获快乐，是多数人时刻怀有的秘密动机，是他们愿意忍受一切的目的“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Whoever wrote this remark seems to be under the impression that the point of being at Yale is to spend $40,000 a year of your parents' money and get away with learning as little as possible.

无论谁写的这条评论都被带怀有这种印象,那就是每年花费你父母四万美金在耶鲁上,学并尽可能少的学到知识。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So, that means we have to devise ways of sharing with people that we've never met, that we don't care about--I mean, maybe we care about everybody, but we don't have any particular emotional ties to them-- and they're very different people.

那意味着我们必须设计一些方法,使我们与素未谋面的，并不亲近的人们一同分摊风险，也许我们非常博爱，但未必对所有人都会怀有特殊情感-,分摊者应该是与我们非常不同的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选