Many people said the problem with general levels of happiness or unhappiness rather, the cause is people have too high expectations.

很多人说,一般的快乐或不快乐水平，是由于人们有过高的期望。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

We, too, understand the relevance of what we call "the society function."] Rather it must be elucidated in its full extent through the problem of the evolution of literature.

你们不要以为我们很幼稚,我们也明白社会功能的意义是什么],但是我们必须用,文学进化的角度来解释它的功能。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

.. Let me just--rather than-- maybe I'm showing too many things at once.

我们现在还是不要-,可能我一下子讲得太多了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But the fact that Peter was a czar and was rather scary in his temperament, because he had a rather bad temper, too, meant that he could be alarming.

而彼得大帝是沙皇,加上发起怒来十分可怕,因为他暴躁易怒,人们畏惧他

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Now, you don't have to buy that and individuals undoubtedly found the strain too much from time to time, but what's interesting, is rather the ideal, the claim, the theory.

你不必非得接受这些理论,况且现代社会常充斥着个人主义倾向,但是那些理想,主张和理论却更意味深长

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

First, let's talk about malnutrition. Now usually that concept gets used to talk about too little nutrition, but in fact, if you consider mal to mean poor rather than too little, and poor nutrition can really get manifested as under-nutrition, over-nutrition, or just unhealthy eating in general.

我们首先谈谈营养不良,现在我们通常把这个概念视同于缺乏营养,但实际上理解为"不好的",比"不足"更为恰当,一般而言,不好的营养可以被理解为,营养不足,营养过剩,或者仅仅是指不健康的饮食

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选