If the state has a right to claim the fruits of my labor, that implies that it really has an entitlement to my labor itself.

如果政府有权强占我的劳动果实，这就说明它确实有权强迫我劳动。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

It is a moral entitlement for Hobbes, the source of human worth and dignity.

对霍布斯来说是一种道德权利，是人类价值和尊严的源泉。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

.. Under the next president spending... I don't know anybody who doesn't expect spending to increase because as the baby boomer's age, they'll claim more and more from government entitlement programs.

那么下届总统的财政支出。,想必每个人都希望财政支出继续增加,这一代人刚好出生于婴儿潮时期，他们对政府授权机制向来欲求不满。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

The long-term fiscal challenge is largely a product of promises in our entitlement programs, medicare, medicate and social security that we have made the future generations that we cannot afford to keep.

长期财政挑战很大一部分原因,是我们承诺了很多津贴项目，我们承诺给下一代的,医疗保险和社会保险,而现在我们又没法兑现。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

A gentleman was a man of entitlement.

应该有一定权利

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The economic health of this country in the long run will be dependent on the economic health of the treasury, of our fiscal situation and we can't get that under control until we get the entitlement crisis under control.

而且这个国家的长期经济健康,会依赖于,国库的经济健康和财政形势的健康,只有控制好津贴的危机,才能控制住这些经济的问题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

We are all endowed, he says, with a kind of natural right to life and the desire to preserve oneself is not just a biological fact, although it is also that, it is for him a moral right, it is a moral entitlement, every being has a fundamental right to its own life.

他说，我们具有，一种对生活的自然权利,和保护自己的欲望,这不只是一种生理现象，虽然是一种生理现象，对他来说这更是一种道德权利，是一种道德资格，每个人最自己的生活都有这种根本权利。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选