During an appearance on a national TV news show, she described herself as a private person who finds it's difficult to allow personal emotions to show through in her songs.

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I had not really had a conversation with a person who was out as lesbian or gay before I was in college.

在上大学以前,我从未真正地和一个,出柜的同性恋谈过话。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And, you know, you just meet people because there're... you see the person who's dressed as a zombie,

而且，你会遇到一些人因为……你看到有人穿得像僵尸，

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They don't know--They think that they're teaching somebody in a memory game but actually the person who is being shocked is a confederate who is trained to react in certain ways as he's being increasingly shocked.

他们不知道…他们以为,他们是在用记忆游戏来教被电击者,但其实被电击者早就和设计实验的人串通好,当电击者电击的次多增多时,他就会装成相应的样子。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So, even if we were to agree with the pessimists that it would be better never to have been born at all, as the old joke goes, show me one person in a thousand who's so lucky, right?

所以，即使我们要同意悲观主义者的观点,根本不出生更好，就像老笑话讲的那样，给我千里挑一找到一个走运的人？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Let's consider a business as sort of a person who is owned, like a slave, who is owned by other people.

我们假设公司是一个被人所有的人,比如奴隶,他们隶属于奴隶主

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And this is precisely the opposite of the tyrant who Plato describes as a person of limitless desires who lacks the most rudimentary kind of governance, namely self-control.

而这正是对比于专制,即柏拉图形容中,拥有无限欲望的人,他们缺少最基本的管理，或说自控。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So it's the combination of critical thinking, and the fact that you have such good access to professors, who you could really talk to, that as a very, very young person, had a huge impact to me.

总的来说,批判性思维，以及拥有,好的导师，一位你可以真正与之交谈的导师，对于当时非常年轻的我来说，影响巨大。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

If I had a competition where I'd give $100,000 to the person who looks the most as if they are in pain, it is a very good tactic to take a pen and jam it into your groin because you will look extremely persuasively as if you are in pain.

如果我在这里举行一个竞赛,谁最能将痛苦表演的和真的一样,谁就能拿到10万美元，那么最好用的一招莫过于拿根笔,狠狠地戳进你的腹股沟,因为此时的你看上去真的,足以使他人相信你非常痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选