One thing that I'll just throw out now is that it's a remarkable description of the modern world of moral uncertainty.

我要去掉的一个东西就是,对于现代世界道德的不确定性的描述。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

No offense to anyone who's in modern art, aficionado. Not my thing.

并不想冒犯现代艺术爱好者，但是我确实欣赏不了现代艺术。

喜欢毕加索吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The opposition is between poetry that makes money and poetry that, precisely because it is good poetry as modern poetry defines it, does not.

对立性主要存在于为了赚钱的诗歌和,不为金钱的角度，现代诗歌意义上的,好诗歌之间的分歧。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And there are some communities that are frankly suspicious of Western medicine and don't want people to come in with their modern approaches and feed things to members of their community.

有一些社会团体,对西药是极其怀疑的,他们不欢迎带来现代方法的人,也不愿给民众吃什么东西

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Think of that, that where the law is silent, we have the freedom to do or not to do as we choose, very important to the way we think of liberty today in a modern and you might say liberal democracy.

仔细想想，在法律所认可的地方，我们可按自己的选择去做或是不做，这对身在现代自由民主时代的我们,思考何为自由至关重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

This is less of a problem in modern life then it used to be, but because things are supplemented and fortified-- overly so in some cases-- but still the deficiencies are less common then they used to be.

相比过去,这在现代社会中已不太多见,因为如今很多食物有人工添加的微量元素,有些甚至是过度添加了,但相比过去,缺乏微量元素已不那么常见了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Ok. I don't think I'm a modern art guy.

嗯，我想自己欣赏不了现代艺术。

喜欢毕加索吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But, Nabokov's relationship to this modernist past is not just the burlesque that he visits on Eliot, is not just this complicated attraction and dis-identification that he works on with Proust.

但是，纳博科夫和现代主义者的关系不只是,他对艾略特的滑稽模仿，也不只是和普鲁斯特,复杂的吸引和不认同。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I'm actually going to skip over this for reasons of time and just go to some examples of the unconscious in modern psychology.

由于时间的关系我就不讲这个问题了,直接给大家举一些,现代心理学中的无意识的例子。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And this movie, i don't know if I would recommend it that much, it's... Perhaps I'm being too pC, but I'm not convinced that for the modern woman, hanging around waiting for your prince to come is really a good strategy.

这部电影我真不知道怎么推荐给大家,也许我已经老了吧,但我课不觉得现代的女性四处游荡,等待你的白马王子出现是个好策略

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

I think it's possible to see that "they" as the sort of general forces of modernity, of everything at odds with the aristocratic culture Yeats and these women shared, inhabited.

我认为可以把它们看作“,某种现代性的力量，所有和贵族文化不一致的,叶芝和两个女人所共有的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选