Satan's saying that before the war in heaven, God's power just seemed like any other king's power, as if God sat on the throne of heaven merely because of those humanly constructed reasons of tradition, or of old repute or consent or custom.

撒旦是说在这场天上的大战之前，上帝的力量就和其他国王的力量一样，他坐在天堂的宝座上似乎仅仅是因为,人们自己营造的原因和传统，或者说是他过期的声望，他制定的法规以及约定俗成的规矩。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Continue the passage: "This grasping which is free of the 'as' is a privation of the kind of seeing because he shifts his rhetoric] in which one merely understands."

继续看文章：,这种没有先入之见的解读是,不存在理解的，大家可以看出海德格尔为之深深吸引了,因为他改变了修辞“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And so it doesn't seem plausible to suggest that we people must not be physical, merely physical, because after all, we can reason and no machine can reason.

所以,人不是物理对象,这一观点似乎并不能站稳脚跟,因为毕竟,我们人能推理而机器不能

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

You see, if they give the-- if they merely give shares to the CEO without increasing your shares, then you are being diluted because it's raising the total and it's reducing the ratio.

如果他们仅仅给首席执行官股份,而不给你们增发股份的话,那么你们的股份会因总数增加而被摊薄,比例有所降低

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But the complaint then, or the objection to the physicalist, takes the form that we couldn't be a merely physical entity because no merely physical entity could have free will.

但人们对此的诟病,或物理主义的反驳者认为,人不可能仅仅是一个物理实体,因为物理实体不可能有自由意志

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Because,indeed,they don't exist They're merely possible And we might say,you've got to exist in order for something to be bad for you But once we say that it seems we're running towards the position that in that case,death can't be bad for me because of course,when I'm dead,I don't exist ? So how can anything be bad for me?

因为他们其实并不存在,他们只是一种可能,我们由此认为你必须首先存在,某事才会让你害怕,但我们一旦这么说,我们似乎会得出这个结论,这种情况下死亡不可能让我害怕,因为我死了就不存在了,所以我怎么会害怕？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选