You don't face any facts. This same damned attitude of not facing facts is what got you into this messy state of mind in the first place, and it can't possibly get you out of it."

你没有面对现实，这个不面对现实的态度,在最开始就使你的心变乱了,也无法让你抽身出来“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They are three times removed from the ideal forms of objects in reality.

使现实的东西完全丧失了原本的完美造型。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In the real world, no one's going to measure it instantaneously, but we can make the difference as small as we like.

在现实生活中,没人能一瞬间测出来,但我们可以使差值越来越小

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

A further point that distinguishes the empirical world from this-- this realm of Platonic ideal objects-- is that indeed they-- there's something perfect about them.

更进一步,使现实世界和这个所谓的,柏拉图的理念世界的区别,在于那个世界中有些东西是完美的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We all do believe something makes it true that two plus one equals three, but it's not the fact that empirical objects-- We don't do empirical experiments to see whether two plus one equals three.

我们都相信有些东西,使2加1等于3是正确的,但这不是说现实的东西,我们不会在现实中做实验,去看看二加一是不是等于三

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选