They don't want any of the part of the story of his life in Chicago, and that's what he finally agrees to.

而不要莱特在芝加哥的生活故事，莱特最后同意了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There are stories of deaf people who are within certain societies where nobody signs to them, and so they're what's known as linguistic isolates.

还有些关于生活在并无手语的,特定社会下聋人的故事,这种情况就是所谓的语言隔离

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The story is explaining how these odd conditions of life came to be as they are, which is not to say that it's the ideal situation or even that it's God's will for humankind these are etiological fables, and they're best read as such.

这个故事解释了，这些奇怪的生活状态,并不是说，这些便是理想的,甚至是根据上帝旨意的生活状态,而是阐述为什么会这样的原因，这是最好的解释。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

.. It's one thing to have-- it's not to say that the best-- if you want your life to be like the plot of a great story, it's not as though you think, " "All right, the denouement must occur at the very last page."

如果你拥有-,不是说最美好的生活-,如果你想让生活像美好的故事情节，它并不像你所想的，“好的，结局一定是在最后一页“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In the arts generally people who teach you the arts are going to shudder if you would say oh I interesting in this because it's such fun, because it tells you what life is like or tells you a story and then you'll repeat the story.

艺术一般来说,如果你对教你们艺术的人,说，哦，我对这个很感兴趣,因为它很有趣，因为它告诉你生活是什么,或说它告诉了你一个很好的故事，他会很震惊。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Mythologies are the lives or tales of the lives of gods, tales of the lives of the gods. In pagan religions the gods are born, and they live lives very similar to human lives but on a grand scale and then they die. They might be reborn too.

神话记载了众神的生活故事，众神的一生，在异教里，神是受孕而生的，他们群居，并且生活习惯和人类非常相似,他们也会死亡，也许还会重生。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选