You're not pinned down to a place working for a living.

你不会被阻止去一个地方工作求活。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We know it's an illusion, but we get to live in it so comfortably with so little alteration of the nature of the illusion or of the way in which we negotiate the illusory world, that it becomes kind of womb-like and cozy.

我们知道那是幻觉，但是我们活在其中，如此舒适地,基本不去改变幻觉的本质,也不改变我们在这个幻境中生活的方式，它变得如子宫般安全舒适。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Suppose standing on the bridge next to the fat man, I didn't have to push him, suppose he was standing over a trap door that I could open by turning a steering wheel like that.

假设我站在桥上，胖子就在我旁边，我不用去推他，假设他踩在一扇活板门上方,而活板门可以通过转动方向盘来开启。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选