Apparently,the texts that were the most popular over a bigger geographical space tended to be the ones that got in.

很明显，在较大的地域上,最受欢迎的书籍通常都会被选上。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

In fact, there are some very old books that show this as the average, the sum divided by two arithmetic mean, but the modern practice is to use the geometric mean.

事实上，一些很老的书籍上,平均的定义就是算数意义的，总的来说被分为两种算数意义，但现代我们多用几何意义。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

That is to say, he is in a certain sense book- and language-determined, and he's obscurely aware that this is his problem even as it's a source of pride for him.

意思就是，某种程度上他的意志是由书籍和语言决定的，他也模模糊糊地明白即便这是他引以为豪的,同时也是他的一个问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The Prince appears, on its surface, to be a most conventional work.

君王论》表面上展现出，是一本最拘于常规的书籍。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It's an anthology of writings or books written and edited over an extensive period of time by people in very different situations responding to very different issues and stimuli, some political, some historical, some philosophical, some religious, some moral.

是书籍文献的选集,由许多人在一段相当长的时间里,在各种各样的环境下,对不同的事件做出回应而写成的，政治的，历史的，哲学的，宗教的，道德上的，无所不有。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

That's what you learn, Hobbes believes, from the reading of Aristotle and the Greeks and Romans, regicide, that the only legitimate form of government is a republic and that it is a lawful and even it's your duty to kill your king.

唯一合法的政府应当是共和政体的政府，而且弑君在一定意义上也应当是合法的,甚至那还有可能是你应尽的义务,这就是那些年轻人从阅读亚里士多德,和古希腊罗马书籍中学到的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选