It's sort of late in the day for students who have been through the better part of a semester thinking about the nature of death to argue, maybe, it wasn't such a good idea for you to take this class in the first place.

对学生来说有些太晚了,你们经历了大半个学期,思考着如何讨论死亡的本质，也许，你一开始来上这门课就不是个好主意。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

While this may seem like a good idea at first glance, from a practical standpoint it may interfere unnecessarily in the right to contract and could serve as an impediment to international commerce.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: American Laws for American Courts

Phone-in was a good idea Well, first of all, I have enjoyed it very much.

BBC: News | Monitoring | President Clinton on Shanghai radio phone-in

All of this is precisely why a public health insurance option was a pretty good idea in the first place.

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