Whatever you're reading, it's always worth thinking about and considering what the motives might be for such extraordinary literary risk taking.

不管是读什么，想想作者,为什么会不惜冒这么大的险,总是有意义的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

so that they can question the motives behind some of the choices that they are making.

那样他们就能质疑他们所做的选择背后的动机。

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Rarely does the narrator comment on or explain a character's actions or thoughts or motives. There's only the barest minimum of dialogue.

作者极少评价或解释一个人物的行为,或思想或动机，文章中只有不能再直白的对话。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So why not take president Obama at his words, and simply impute the motives that he claims?

所以为何不相信奥巴马的言论，相信事实就如他所说的一样呢？

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One of the motives for his selection of this genre, the pastoral genre, is the tradition -and it's a tradition that goes all the way back to Theocritus and Virgil -that associates shepherds with poets.

他选择这个流派的动力之一，就是田园诗是一种传统,是一种可以追溯到忒俄克里托斯和维吉尔时代的传统,它把牧羊人和诗人紧密相连。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The brothers desire to hear justice praised for itself alone, and that seems to be expressive of their own freedom from mercenary motives and incentives.

这对兄弟档,想听到正义自我礼赞，这似乎也显露出,他们不受金钱目的,及奖励约束的自由。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He writes, "Spock must have been driven by some motives or goals.

他写到，斯帕克一定,被某种动力或目标激励。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

With I should say the possible exception of the economists who often will believe that economic motives and transactions provide the key to all possible human behaviors.

知识分支当中,可能的例外是经济学家,他们常认为,是经济动机与交易,决定了所有可能的人类行为。

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