"The lives that our young men and women both American and British have put at risk and lost are very much on our minds,and we intend to get this as right as its humanly possible."

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

We can't know anything certain about the eternal and the immortal world of Paradise Lost except through these faculties we have and those are uncertain, imperfect, fallen human capacities of reading.

我们无法了解任何确切的,有关中的永恒不灭的世界的认识,除非那些借助于已有的不确切不完美的阅读技巧。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

What he proposes is that we have become so precise about nutrients, and so concerned about the things that are in food, we've lost sense of what food is.

他认为我们越来越关注营养,关注存在于食物当中的物质,却忽略了食物本身

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"But,it puts us in a very awkward position because,if we cannot go there ourselves to see what they are doing, to whom they are distributing and what criteria they are using, how much they are keeping for themselves, how much is getting lost, we start losing control over it,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

"In Europe and also here increasingly in the U.S., they are talking as if we had basically lost it and the main question was talking to the Taliban and settling to some degree on their terms, whereas we still have not tried - and I think it would be worth trying for a year, at least,or two - to address the causes as to why the Taliban has become relatively popular, or at least relatively accepted,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.11