Suppose we don't know what economic circumstances we'd be born into and what kind of contingencies we'd have in life.

假设我们不知道,将会在怎样的经济环境中生存,而生命中又会有怎样的意外发生。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Because it challenged the whole class system, that people are born into a certain place and cannot-- and should not-- be moved.

因为它挑战了整个阶级体系，人生来就有阶级，不能-,也不应该被改变。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Where there are many languages in use, language comes to seem arbitrary rather than natural, ; as the product of convention; not as something you're simply born into but something that you learn, something that is made and that can be remade.

世界上有很多种语言在使用中，然而语言的运用却显得任意，而非自然而然的作为传统的产物;,不像是与生俱来的才能，而像后天学会的，像是某些创造再创造的事物。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He is born into a Levite family. The Levites will be priests in Israel, so he's born to a priestly family. He's hidden away for three months, and then he's placed in a wicker basket, which is lined with bitumen, a tar, and set among the bulrushes at the edge of the Nile River.

他出生于利未家庭，利未人都将在以色列做牧师，他出生于一个牧师家庭，他被藏了三个月，后来他被放在蒲草篮子中，上面涂了石漆和石油，搁在了尼罗河畔的芦荻中。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选