So ever since then and when I came back to Princeton, then we formed a center to study those problems.

所以从那以后，在我回到普林斯顿大学时，我们组成了一个中心研习这些问题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

In the case of Leviathan, I would suggest to you, Hobbes' central question is, ? what makes authority possible?

至于《利维坦》，我要向你们说明，霍布斯的中心问题是，是什么使得权力成为可能？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The answer to the question, I think, gets at the very heart of the meaning of this elegy.

问题的答案，在于这首挽歌的中心意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This is the nostalgia or regret of the ethnographer who says, "Now as a result of this terrible Eurocentrism, as a result of the terrible ethnocentrism of the Europeans studying these things, we no longer have a savage mind."

这是人种志学者的怀旧或者遗憾，他说，现在，由于有可怕的欧洲中心主义，由于,研究这些问题的欧洲人有着可怕的种族优越感，我们不再有野性的思维“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

There is a homeless person " and--but these are day-to-day moral questions we struggle with all the time and so there's a centrality in the study of how we do moral reasoning.

又有一个流浪汉走来了“,这些就是我们每天,都要应付的道德问题,所以这当中有一个中心,存在于我们的道德推理研究中。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now, the crucial point here, the point I was turning to as we ended last time, is that although a person on the physicalist view is just a body, a person isn't just any old body.

但问题的中心,即我在上次结课前谈到的关键点,在于尽管从物理主义的角度来看,人只是肉体,但并不是普通的肉体

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And not only are the Greeks as a whole cut off from the rest of the world, but Greece itself, which used to be an area of easy exchange, where people could go from one place to the other and did, localism now comes into the picture.

而且不仅是希腊人作为一个群体被排除在,世界之外,希腊内部也出现了问题,它曾经也是一个贸易中心,人们从其他地方赶来又走向另一个地方,而此时,地方主义开始兴起

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The centrality Aristotle ascribes to politics forces us to consider another question ? namely what is the purpose of this study?

亚里士多德加到政治中的,中心论点迫使我们考虑另一个问题,即这门研究的目的为何？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now, scholars are ingenious in their ability to skirt absolutely the central conundrum of Providence that this poem raises ; and which it raises so insistently and really refuses to let go of; but that doesn't mean that the problem just goes away.

学者们非常精明的,在这首诗里体现出的天意的中心问题上打擦边球,这个观点如此坚决我们无法弃之不管;,但那并不意味着问题就这样解决了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选