"I want to sue my parents for the rights to my own body." "Would you repeat that please?"

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It is fear, not reason, that leads us to abandon the state of nature and sue for peace.

与理性不同，恐惧让我们放弃自然状态,转而去寻求和平。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Satan finds it ignominious and shameful to lower himself to God, to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee and deify His power, but this kind of submission is shameful not because it's simply always shameful so to debase oneself.

撒旦认为对上帝放低身段，屈膝承欢，并认可他的力量实在是可耻的，但是这种屈从之所以是耻辱,并非是因为通常身段被贬低时会感到耻辱。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

They can stall you for a year; you're trying to sell the house, they hire lawyers and sue you and you've got to hire lawyers.

能拖延你整整一年的时间,当你准备卖掉房子,他们会请律师起诉你,然后你也不得不请律师

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So let's hear a little bit of this and then we'll stop so they don't sue us for copyright infringement and then we'll go somewhere else and take another chunk.

那么我们听一小段,然后我们就停,免得他们告我们侵权,然后我们又得去找别的段子了

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

You can get away--you can sue people for stealing melody.

但是这不成立，你可以起诉别人抄袭你的旋律。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选