Both shared, both sides, the leadership of both sides, shared a rich kind of nationalism about this American experiment.

双方,双方的领袖,关于这场美国政治改革,都有着同样浓厚的民族主义思想

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The reform of politics may not be within our power but the exercise of self-control always is.

政治改革,也许并非我们能力所及,但自控的练习却永远是想要参与政治改革的个体。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They typically--they like to talk about the politics of it and this thing, that it's dead on arrival or it'ssomeone said it's an amateurish proposal.

他们不约而同地大书特书这个改革的政治色彩,或者说些这个计划死定了之类的话,有的人还说这是个欠考虑的改革计划。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I don't want to exaggerate this too much but the largest riots in Britain in the eighteenth century are not the riots for political reform at all.

我不想过多地夸张,但十八世纪英国最大的暴乱,完全不是关于政治改革

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Going forward I like to talk with you about health reforms Talk about two aspects of reform one what do you think are the most important reforms that we as a nation need Secondly what is politically and socially feasible doable, achievable?

接着说,我想跟你聊聊医疗改革,谈谈改革的两个方面,一方面，您认为,我们国家,最需要进行改革的是什么,其次，从政治方面,和社会方面而言,什么是可行的,可做的，可是实现的？

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选