In other words, language, according to Derrida, in the Saussurian tradition seems to privilege sound over script, over what is graphic.

换句话说，德里达认为，在索绪尔的理论中，音响比文字，更具优势。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Or whether or not they had no idea what they were doing, and they've given themselves over to this process.

还是说诗人并不完全理解自己写的文字，而是在创作过程中完全超然忘我。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

There is that physical comedy, and I'll suggest to you that in that sentence, the pushing and pulling, you're seeing part of Nabokov's verbal play.

有着强烈的肢体喜剧色彩，我认为在这句话中，反复出现的推和拉，想你展示了纳博科夫的文字游戏。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The first creation story doesn't really contain puns and wordplays, it's a little bit serious. The second creation story is full of them: there are all sorts of little ironies and puns in the Hebrew.

第一个创世纪故事中很少有双关语和文字游戏，有几分严肃，第二个故事却充满了这些：,希伯来语中有许多反讽和双关。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

You've got to have a text and so we don't have--in eighty percent of classical music-- we don't have lyrics; we don't have a text.

你得有文字,而百分之八十的古典乐中却没有,没有歌词,没有文字

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

I live in words Backban I walk a great deal, I live in the backban walking into class and home, that's 3 or 4 miles right there.

我生活在文字中,我常常走路，我住在,走来上课,走回家去，我家离这里大概三四英里远。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Among the things that are lost for a long time, there is writing.

在长期遗失的事物中,包括文字材料

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Now that definition, if you're worried about what I've written down here and you want to see it in words, on the handout I've already put on the web that has the summary of the first class, I included this definition in words as well.

对于这个定义,如果你还有些疑问,而且你想看用文字表述的,在讲义中有,我已经上传到网上了,里面有第一节课的总结,也这个定义的文字形式

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The riff on the a in differance as all of those things is something that we can only pick up if we understand language as writing, because in speech these modes of difference don't register.

延异》中a的那一章的内容,我们只能通过看文字理解，因为在言语里我们无法区分这些差别。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So what we think we know derives chiefly from archeological evidence, which is before writing--mute evidence that has to be interpreted and is very complicated, and is far from secure.

我们目前所认为的史实,主要都是从考古证据中所得,这些无声的证据出现于文字记录之前,因此就需要繁复的考证及解读,这些考证未必可靠

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Now, what we learn, both from archaeology and from references in the Linear B tablets is that they engaged-- these cultures engaged in trade to a significant degree.

现在,我们从考古学,以及B类线形文字刻板中的线索得知,这些文明中具有相当多的贸易因素

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There is no reference, in any of the tablets-- I don't know how much we can make of that because the tablets limit themselves to such limited kinds of things that maybe it doesn't prove anything, but in this case, I think it does.

在所有陶土碎片的文字中都没有注释,我不知道我们能够理解多少,况且陶土碎片可供记录的空间有限,也许它们不能证明任何东西,但在这里,我想至少可以证明一点

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

We know that the Mycenaeans, or at least some small number of them could write, because we have the Linear B script, which we can read. There is no clue that there is such a thing as writing in the Homeric poems.

我们知道迈锡尼人中,至少小部分,是会写作的,因为我们找到了B类线形文字的遗稿,我们能够解读,但在荷马史诗中,却并没有任何线索表明写作这一点

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选