But I would say - I would agree with you - but I would add that for me, good religion and good art - I like this idea -- are as real as life itself.

我同意你的观点，但我还想加一点,对我来说，好的宗教和好的艺术,应该和生活一样真实，我喜欢这个理念。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And so--like the chainlet--it takes that stone-like distillation of life, turning rain to stone, turning life to the representation by your tormentor.

就像那条链子，它提取了,生命中如磐石般不朽的精华，将雨水变成石头，将生命变成,折磨你的人笔下的画像。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I think of nineteenth-century art as being horizontal and stretched out like agricultural life in New England.

我觉得19世纪的艺术应该是,水平的，就像新英格兰伸展开来的农业。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Even what we think in our vulgar ways to be inanimate objects - even they seem to have within them something like a potency, a potency of life or an infusion of divine spirit.

即使是那些我们以通俗的眼光看来没有生命的物体,-即使是它们也有一种潜质，一种生命的潜质，似乎被注入了神灵。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Back in the 1840s, life insurance was very important because the average expectancy of life was only something like forty-five years, so that meant parents were dying left and right.

在19世纪40年代的时候,寿险是非常重要的,因为当时的人均期望寿命,仅为45岁左右,这意味着双亲平均只能活到45岁

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But even if you do survive-- let's the ground floor-- even if you do survive, you would lead a life of constant frustration-- refusing to accept something that is there whether you like it or not.

即使你幸存下来-,比如你在一楼-,就算你真得幸存下来，你的生活将是处处受挫-,拒绝接受现实事物,不论你喜欢与否。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Or, if you want, you could say maybe they died, but since they obviously didn't die permanently-- after all they were brought back to life-- how could they possibly tell us what it's like to be permanently dead?

或者,如果你想的话,你可以说或许他们死过,但既然他们没有永久地死去,毕竟他们被救活了,那么他们怎么可能告诉我们,永久死亡是什么样子的呢

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

That is, until the great archaeological discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which unearthed for us the great civilizations of the Ancient Near East, of which I have drawn a remarkably life-like map ] here on the board: Mediterranean, I always start with the Mediterranean Ocean, the Nile River, the Tigris and the Euphrates.

直到十九至二十世纪,一些重大的考古发现，才让我们了解到,远古近东的文明,我已经在黑板上画了一幅,栩栩如生的地图了：,地中海，我总是从地中海讲起，尼罗河，底格里斯河，还有幼发拉底河。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

.. It's one thing to have-- it's not to say that the best-- if you want your life to be like the plot of a great story, it's not as though you think, " "All right, the denouement must occur at the very last page."

如果你拥有-,不是说最美好的生活-,如果你想让生活像美好的故事情节，它并不像你所想的，“好的，结局一定是在最后一页“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

A lot of us might feel that a life like this, where we peak but then we stick around-- ... you know, isn't-- can at least fail to be as desirable in which we end with a bang.

很多人可能觉得生命是这样的，我们先到达巅峰然后下跌-,不是-,它无法令人满意地,让我们突然死去。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选