The point is that we both want to be in a place of revelation, where something that neither of us expected to happen will happen.

而艺术创作的意义是，我们都希望得到,启示，希望看到意想不到,的事情发生。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So the meaning in life will be furthered by means of this kind of communication that takes place through responsivity.

因此生命的意义可以通过这种,相互交流而深化,而交流的途径就是反应。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

I don't think the housing industry, in general,is a good place to be because of its, sometimes,violent cyclicality.

我认为总的来说住房工业,不是一个好的投资品种,因为它时常有着强烈的周期性

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Sanctuaries in the ancient world were understood to be the dwelling place of the deity.

在古时候，圣所被认为是,神的住所。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Milton needs to imagine the narrative of the Creation as if the narration itself were taking place in the beginning, as if poetic creation could be a first in the same radical way that the creation of entire universe is obviously a first.

弥尔顿想象的对上帝创造万物的讲述,与上帝创造万物一样发生在太初之时，诗歌创作与整个宇宙的创造,都发生在太初之时。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It would therefore be the place of progress in the world.

因此应该是世界最进步的国家

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

A woman can be proud and stiff When on love intent; But Love has pitched his mansion in ; The place of excrement; For nothing can be sole or whole That has not been rent."

坟或床都无能为力,“当女人专注爱情之时;,她总会高傲自得,但爱情却把它的居所;,设在排泄之处,要明白凡事若要完美，都必须先撕破“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

We are invited to be not merely passive onlookers of this conversation, but active participants in that dialogue that takes place in this book over the course of a single evening.

我们不仅受邀,作为这场会谈的被动旁观者，更受邀参与进行中的对谈,时间就在那一晚,内容是本书。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public-- , then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place?

如果一个美国人，因为他的皮肤是黑色，而不能在一家对公众开放的餐馆吃午餐…,诸如此类的话，那么我们当中有谁会愿意,换上他的肤色，接受他受到的待遇？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So you want to think about his hoplite, when he has everything on and when the shield is in place, again let me sort of try to demonstrate this, he ought to be covered by some kind of defense from head to toe.

所以你们可以想象这样一个情景,一名士兵全副武装,盾甲齐备,我还是演示一下吧,他从头到脚,应该算是武装到牙齿了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选