I don't have as heavy teaching loads, which makes it possible for me to write, as some colleagues at other schools where the teaching load is so heavy that it's very hard to get writing done.

教学任务不太重，这就使得我有时间进行写作，而另外一些大学,教学任务可能很重,那样的话，就没有时间去写作。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And so we sort of sit back from the situation and say, "Look, hey, you're a really nice guy, and we like you and your family. And you're fun to be with and we like your jokes, but you didn't get the job done."

我们得保持客观，说，你很不错，我们喜欢你和你的家庭,你很幽默，我们很喜欢你讲的笑话，但是你并没有完成任务“

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

This isn't the last time this will happen during the course of the syllabus, our job is to bring out the implications for literature of texts that we read that don't have any direct bearing on literary study.

而且以后你们还会读到很多和文学没有关系的东西,在课程大纲里，我们的任务是,读懂文学的含义,但是课程里却又很多东西和文学无关。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We'll talk about how your normal valves function inside your heart and how your heart couldn't work in the way that it did if it didn't have valves that were doing a very complex operation many many times a day.

我们会讨论,正常的瓣膜在心脏中如何工作,以及没有这个,每天不停完成很多复杂任务的心脏瓣膜,心脏为什么,就不能正常工作了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选