"If I could get done what I think needs to get done in four years, even if it meant that I was only president for four years, I would rather be a good president taking on the tough issues for four years, than a mediocre president for eight years,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

Even if I could make everyone in the room choose Beta by the force of my brain waves, What should I then do? I should choose Alpha.

就算我能用我脑波强迫,你们选β,那我应该选什么,我应该选α

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

I could study law, business, even accounting if I wanted to.

我可以学习法律，商务，甚至会计，如果我想的话。

为何选那门专业？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Even if I was that guy in the X-Men or the Matrix or whatever it was, who could reason his way into making people do things.

就算我是X-Men或者尼奥,我能影响到别人的推理

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Because the notion of free will was that even if I was in the very same spot again, the very same situation again, I could've chosen differently.

因为自由意志的内涵就是,即使我再次处在相同的地点,相同的情况下,我也可能做出不同的选择

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

One of the things that we discussed was this type of imagery here where you have vertically these pillars, if you will, or we could even call--the more I sort of looked at this--sort of call them tree trunks almost.

我们讨论的问题之一是这里的这种意象，这些垂直的柱子，如果你愿意的话，我们可以称之为，我越看越觉得称之为树干比较好。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选