It can never be a kind of cosmopolis, a world state or even a league of states or nations.

它永远不可能成为国际都会或世界之都，或甚至是国联或族联。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And he kept calling it the world city, and I really like that.

然后他就一直叫这里是世界之城，我真的很喜欢他那个叫法。

关于唐人街 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

By 1860 there were approximately 4,000,000 slaves in the United States, the second largest slave society slave population--in the world.

截至1860年,美国大约有,四百万的奴隶,也因此使之成为了,世界历史上的第二大奴隶社会

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

So that's the way the world looks when the polis is invented and when colonization begins to become a big thing.

这就是城邦建立以及殖民开始兴起之时,古希腊世界的面貌

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Part of the resonance and power of that famous refrain, "a terrible beauty is born," is that this beauty is being born not only in the world but in Yeats's poetry.

部分激发联想的力量,以及那著名的叠唱的力量，一中惊人之美诞生了“,那种美,不仅诞生于现实世界,也诞生于叶芝的诗歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And that's somewhat inconvenient because we're working with wave functions, but it's a reality that comes out of quantum mechanics often, which is that we're describing a world that is so much different from the world that we observe on a day-to-day basis, that we're not always going to be able to make those one-to-one analogies.

这对于研究氢原子，很不方便,但这就是事实,而且在量子力学中经常会出现这种事实,那就是我们要描述的世界，和我们日常所看到的世界,之间的差别是如此之大,以至于我们不能，做出一一对应的类比,但幸运的是我们不用管。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

In Gravity's Rainbow he did enormous amounts of research in newspapers from the Second World War in London where some of the novel is set, so that you can go to newspapers and find the ads that he talks about in the novels.

充满了人类历史的碎片的丰富世界,在伦敦写《万有引力之虹》的时候,他在报纸上查阅了,大量关于二战的信息。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Well of course it's an important value to have in general that in order to be good neighbors in the world we need to understand it, we need to-- if we're going to be good citizens in the world we have to know what other people are doing and what's affecting us.

总的来说,它的重要之处在于,为了成为世界上其他国家的好邻居,我们要懂得,如果要成为世界上的一个好公民的话,我们得知道其他国家的人在做什么,是什么在影响我们

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It's halfway up Mount Parnassus and it was thought by the Greeks to be the Omphalos, the navel of the universe, the center in every way. Why?

它坐落在帕尔纳索斯山半山腰上,希腊人称它为Omphalos,是世界之脐,即世界的中心,为什么呢

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Their yell at the top of the world seems to Sal something that calls for a replacement; it calls for some other prophet to come walking ragged towards them and make them fall silent with his word.

他们在世界之巅的叫喊对Sal来说,似乎是在要求一个代替者;,需要另一个先知衣衫褴褛地朝他们走来,用他的话让他们安静。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选