事实很重要，但事实本身也是死的。

Facts are important, but facts are also dead in themselves.

youdao

她随一支摇滚乐队演唱，但她本身也是爵士乐手。

She sings with a rock band, but she's also a jazz musician in her own right.

《牛津词典》

人文学科的资金严重不足，不仅是政府和基金会的资金不足，学术机构本身也是如此。

Humanistic disciplines are seriously underfunded, not just by the government and the foundations but by academic institutions themselves.

youdao

It's as though we've been assuming, and I have been assuming up to this moment, that being alive per se has no value.

就像我们所假设的，当然这也是我到目前为止一直假设的，即活着本身没有价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And that I think may be a little bit - - that's a metaphor in itself - that may be a little bit much to ask of a work of art.

但我认为这个要求,我说的本身也是一个比喻-,对于一个艺术作品来说有些太多了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Thus is this book on myths itself and in its own way a myth."

因此这本书是关于神话的，同时本身也是一个神话“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选