It's a pretty state of affairs, in his view, when the most rigorous thinking that's being done about literature is being done in popular journals.

他认为，关于文学的严肃的思考大多,被发表在流行杂志上很不妥当。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Sometimes things go awry and what happens is a phrase that's not currently used in psychology but was popular during Freud's time: hysteria.

当防卫机制不起作用时,就会造成一种病症,其名称在如今的心理学领域已经不常用到,但在弗洛伊德的时代,这是个非常流行的名称：,这就是癔症。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Models aren't popular articles, especially the more complex models I have.

模型不流行了，特别是我的这些复杂模型。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

I don't know.The bass isn't as loud as in some of the pop music but I think it-- but I think that's what the tonic is.

我不知道，低音并不像有些流行音乐那样大声,但是我认为，这认为这就是主音应该的样子。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

One that seems to be in fashion these days, although you never know how long the fashion lasts, is: internal uprisings that somehow these monarchical areas, when life got tough, the people must have risen up against them.

有一个理论现在很流行,虽然不知道流行了多久,那就是认为,这些王国中起义的内部原因是,当民生困苦时,人们就必然奋起反抗

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选