But my mother, being more imaginative, retaliated with an assault upon my sensibilities that crushed me with the moral horror involved in taking a life.

可是我母亲更擅长运用生活的艺术，她会用人性的良知感情惩戒我,让我以后对摧残生灵心有余悸，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They don't legislate compassion. It's likely that these were considered acts of, who knows, personal conscience, religious conviction, something that was between the individual and society and their God.

也没有给同情立法，这可能是由于人们认为这些行为,只关乎个人良知，宗教信念或者是，介于个人，社会和上帝之间的某一事物。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The idea is that you come out; you get in your head a superego, a conscience.

因为在你的脑海里会闪现出超我;,一种道德良知。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And when they started encountering these Northerners, whether they were from Massachusetts or Ohio, who started talking about a politics of conscience, or a politics of law, they're not always talking on the same page.

当他们数落北方人的时候,不管他们本身来自马萨诸塞州或俄亥俄州,他们开始讨论对良知,或者政法的时候,他们总是牛头不对马嘴

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.

语言的力量无可估量，绝不是单单使用一下那么简单：,而是通过假意遵从，以及勾起人性良知的方式表达的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选