My life would've gone better had I chosen to become a farmer instead of chosen to become a doctor.

我的生活本来会变得更好,如果我选择成为农民而不是医生的话。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So perhaps the best form of life would be not immortality; I think that would be not particularly desirable.

所以生命的最好形式,并不是永生;,那并非十分诱人。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So, to confine the individual, it seems, to one and only one sphere of life would seem to do an injustice to the internal psychological complexity that makes each of us who we are.

所以，将个人约束在，唯一一个人生阶层之中似乎不公,因为忽视了,内心的复杂度,而这正是让我们每一个人显得独特的原因。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And he responded, "No, but I would gladly give my life for three brothers or five nephews or nine first cousins.

他回答，不，但我乐意把生命给三个兄弟,或5个侄子或九个堂兄弟姊妹。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.

有些读者认为,对基督的信仰是关乎生死的大事,这对于那些对基督教,不以为然的人是一个障碍。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So I would argue as a matter of practice in my own life and certainly in a teaching capacity, frankly, I find this much more readable.

所以我要主张，作为在我生命中的实践经验,和教学的资格，真诚地说，我认为这个是更具有可读性的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Because someone did that,that would've slayed them I had in my life in present circumstances.

因为你没有那样友爱的家庭和社区的话,曾经历的那种爱了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

They would tell these women, you know, if you buy life insurance on your husband, then should anything happen your husband can love and protect you from beyond the grave.

他们会告诉这些女人,如果你为你的丈夫购买了寿险,那么万一有意外发生,你丈夫的在天之灵仍会保佑你渡过难关

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I think if you look at conscription as the government picking out certain individuals to go fight in war, then that would be a violation of their natural right to life.

我想如果你把征兵制,视为政府挑选特定的个人去参战，那确实是对自然权利中生命权的侵犯。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

I would hope that how you lead your life ten years from now, twenty years from now, thirty years from now, would have been significantly influenced by this particular experience in this course.

我憧憬着,十年,二十年,三十年后,你们会怎样经营自己的生活,你们的生活方式,会怎样被这门课深深影响

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

This is impressive: he dropped out of both Dartmouth and Harvard, and he did so to take laboring jobs, each time enacting a conflict between intellectual life and manual labor that would be a persistent and central theme of his poetry.

令人印象深刻的是，他从,达特茅斯学院和哈佛大学都辍学了,来劳作，每一次都在,脑力劳动和体力劳动间发生矛盾,这也是他的诗歌的核心主题。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

In the arts generally people who teach you the arts are going to shudder if you would say oh I interesting in this because it's such fun, because it tells you what life is like or tells you a story and then you'll repeat the story.

艺术一般来说,如果你对教你们艺术的人,说，哦，我对这个很感兴趣,因为它很有趣，因为它告诉你生活是什么,或说它告诉了你一个很好的故事，他会很震惊。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Or my life would've gone better for this period of ten years, but then it would've become worse.

或者说我的生活在这十年本来可以更好，然后它会变得糟糕。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Why would anyone ever risk one's life for ? one's country or a cause just to help other people, people that we don't know and probably will never know?

为什么人人都要为自己的国家或者,去救人的缘由而冒险，并且这个人我们不认识,可能永远也不会认识？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So more life would always be better, no matter how horrible the contents might be.

活得更长久总是会更好，不管生活内容会有多糟糕。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

.. So that death-- they're optimists in this strange sense, if they think life would've been good, which means of course that that we die is bad for us.

所以死亡-,在这种奇怪意义上他们是乐观主义者，如果他们认为活着本来会很美好，那意味着死亡是件坏事。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选