Perhaps we want to write like Shakespeare, maybe we want to be a writer like the great Old Testament prophet Isaiah. But the last thing we should be burdened with, Milton's suggesting here, is the fear of being late.

也许我们想向莎士比亚一样，也许想成为,伟大的旧约先知以赛亚,但弥尔顿说我们最不应该被，担心迟到所困。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So you can see in that passage Hobbes takes himself to be a moralist writing within the great tradition of moral philosophy.

所以在这一段中你可以看出,霍布斯自诩为道德学家,作品不超出道德思想伟大传统的范围。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The great discovery that Galileo and Newton made is that you don't need a force for a body to move at constant velocity.

伽利略和牛顿的伟大发现就是,物体不需要力来维持匀速运动

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

History seems to remember the heroic moments and the triumphs That people remember those great things But they don't know the heroic ones either.

历史总是选择记住那些光辉的时刻,那些胜利的时刻,人们总是记住很伟大的东西,他们也不知道那些光辉的时刻。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

That's a great question and I don't know the answer to it.

那真是个伟大的问题,连我也不知道问题的答案。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Trouble the Water; a novel about growing up in the South by Melvin Dixon, a great novel that gets little attention, and his lifelong struggle to understand just how Southern he was in New York.

再如梅尔文·迪克逊的《水的困扰》,是一本关于南方的成长经历的小说,一本伟大却不出名的小说,他终其一生都在试图理解,为何他在纽约那么像个南方人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Whatever you think those are. Here, you might imagine different people disagreeing about-- oh, but throw in something--but if what you want to do is write the great American novel, then you've got the experience of staying up late at night not knowing how to make the plot work out, crushing pieces of paper and throwing them away.

你能想到的都在里面，可能有人不同意-,插入某某东西，比如你想,创作最伟大的美国小说，于是你获得熬夜的体验,纠结于如何构建情节，撕碎稿纸，扔在一边。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选