Why does he go against the traditional Ancient Near Eastern practice of primogeniture, inheritance by the first born?

为什么他要违背传统古代近东的惯例,也就是长子继承制，由第一个儿子继承？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

You are no longer like a son to me and like your father, my first husband, 'Ere this kindly Greek took pity on me."

你不像我的儿子，而像父亲，我的第一个丈夫，埃瑞是希腊人，这个好人总是可怜我“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And not a single young person in the room except my son, who was then a teenager who would tag along and see his father testify.

却没有一个年轻人在场,除了我儿子，是当时唯一的青少年,除了他没人跟着父亲参加听证会。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

But when it came to treason, he was less likely to be merciful, as the case of Alexis, his ill-fated son would demonstrate.

只是对于背叛者,他是绝不手软的,他那不幸的儿子阿列克思就是一个例证

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

What did you tell my son ? to make him bring homeless man into my house?

你对我儿子说了什么,让他把一个流浪汉带回家？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

I finally backed down because I met a man on Wall Street, a very prominent Wall Street person, and he said, "You know, my son started to take your course."

我最终还是让步了,我遇到一个在华尔街工作的人,一个非常杰出的华尔街人士,他说,我儿子原本选了你的课

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

My son has a little robot that can do that.

我儿子的一个玩具机器人就有这种功能

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Here, a neighbor father, crazed with grief at the death of his son, has drowned himself, killed himself, and the moon implies in its gaze that the poet should do so, too.

这里，一个邻居父亲，因儿子之死悲痛发狂，溺死自己，杀死自己，月亮在凝视中隐含,诗人也应该这么做。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

A virgin will bear a son.

一个处女会怀上一个儿子。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

One of them,by the way,just about ten years ago, the Orleanist family suffered kind of an embarrassing reversal when one of the Orleanists, sort of the third in line if there was ever an Orleanist restoration of the throne,was arrested for burglary, as being an accessory for burglary in the Pyrenees-Orientales.

顺便说一说,在十年前,奥尔良家族遭受了令人尴尬的霉运,这些儿子中的一个,如果奥尔良家族复辟的话,可以说是第三顺位继承人,他因为盗窃被捕,在东比利牛斯省因为盗窃同谋被捕

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

In the climactic moment in the story, Joseph demands that his frightened brothers leave Benjamin the other son of Rachel, the other son of the beloved wife leave Benjamin as a pledge in Egypt.

在故事的高潮，约瑟夫要求惊慌的兄弟们留下本杰明,他是Rachelr，另一个儿子，心爱妻子的另一个儿子,当本杰明当作人质留在埃及。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

A mother flog her son until he's unconscious didn't seem too credible.

一个母亲把儿子打至不省人事实在让人难以置信,其他关于准确性的不满。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

As to his son, his son was more under the influence of these traditional religious influences.

而说到彼得的儿子,就是一个深受传统宗教影响的人

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So, the barber is speaking about his son in such a way that he seems alive, but, in fact, he's dead. So here is one dead child playing baseball, or the memory of him playing baseball is alive with his father.

这个老理发师在用一种谈论,活人的口吻谈论他的儿子，但实际上他已经死了，那么，这里是一个打篮球的孩子的死，也许对他父亲而言，关于他打篮球的记忆将长存。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And indeed Judah, the one who had figured so prominently in the sale of Joseph, that had crushed his father, Judah steps forward and offers himself instead of Benjamin: he says: It would kill my father now to lose Benjamin, the last son of his beloved wife, Rachel.

但确实是犹太，他在卖掉约瑟夫时作用重大，他击溃了他的亲身父亲，他向前一步，提出用自己交换本杰明：,他说：，现在失去了本杰明，我父亲就会死去，他是父亲爱妻Rachel的最后一个儿子。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选