If they're being exploited, they've got big armies that can crush them like grapes if they get in the way.

他们眼睁睁地盘剥,强大的武装军队,能够粉碎任何反抗势力

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

What kind of knowledge, if any, can be had from the shattering experiences of revolution or rape, those models of history that I proposed last time?

什么知识能从我上次讲到的,历史形式的的粉碎性的经验里，比如革命或者强奸里获得？

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

After smashing the first set of tablets that were inscribed with the Decalogue--the tablets in Exodus 20, those are smashed after the golden calf incident--Moses is then given a second set of tablets.

第一块刻有十诫的法板,在金牛犊事件之后被粉碎了，这记录在《出埃及记》,第20章里，之后，摩西又被给予了第二块法板。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

At another time, Zeus destroys the wide camped army of people or wrecks their city with its walls, or their ships on the open water.

其他的时候,宙斯会屠戮露宿的人,摧毁他们的城墙,或在开阔的水域粉碎他们的船只

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So, that's not exactly the case and we're going to start in at the point where right around this time of great confidence of feeling all has been conquered, there are some observations and discoveries that are made that completely break down these theories.

把测量弄的更精确一点,但事实并不如他说的这样,我们就要从这时候谈起,当时人们十分有信心的,觉得已经征服了一切问题,但有一些实验和观察,彻底粉碎了这种看法。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The reason this fulfillment is important and can be valued is, - according to Richards, that these needs-- unless they are organized or harmonized so that they work together in what he sometimes calls a "synthesis"-- can actually tear us apart.

这种满足之所以重要而有价值是因为，根据Richards的观点，我们的需求-,如果没有被和谐地组织起来,形成一个综合体-,它们会将我们粉碎。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The church windows shatter.

教堂的窗户粉碎了。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选