They always mean or signify far more than they're supposed to if their job is simply to make a comparison.

他们总是比简单的完成一个比喻,而一位或者代表了更多的深层含义。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I fully understand the value of what you are driving at, but frankly, the narrative as it now stands simply will not support a more general or hopeful conclusion.

但你的提议太含糊不清，说实话，你说的,无助于更好的结局。

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Paideia The Greek word paideia, which is right there on your handout, means education, but it also means more than simply rote learning or memorization or learning to read, like we think.

希腊词，讲义上有，意思是教育，但不仅如此,它不仅仅指我们想的那种，死记硬背式的教育。

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When Aristotle says that man is a political animal by nature, he is doing more than simply asserting just a truism or just some platitude.

当亚里士多德说,人类天生是政治动物，他的主张,不只是老生常谈,或是陈腔滥调。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It simply means human or more precisely earthling because it comes from the word adamah, which means ground or earth.

它只意味着人，或者更准确地说是地球生物,因为它来自单词adamah，意为土地或地面。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Is not any so-called list of great thinkers ? or great texts likely to be simply arbitrary and tell us more about what such a ! list excludes than what it includes?

这种所谓的伟大思想家,或巨著清单不会太过于武断吗,它告诉我们的应是,遗漏多于涵蕴吧？

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