But Milton's also sensitive to the fact that the very phrase "Christian epic" is in some way a contradiction in terms.

但弥尔顿对有些事实也很敏锐,某种意义上“基督教史诗“这个词语,本身就是矛盾的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I think it's to give us a dynamic sense of the family conversation going on between them, but it also addresses one of those obvious things.

我想这是要给我们一个有活力的家庭,对话存在于他们之间的感觉，但是它也表明了一个明显的事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

we're looking for something that's true,necessary,interesting and, if not unique to death,at least not true of everything.

我们要寻找的是真实，必要，有趣的，而且就算不是死亡独有，也不能是普遍事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And you might expect it that they would come to speak a pidgin, but they don't.

你可能会以为他们也将学会这种混杂语言,但事实并非如此

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Well, it turns out that proteins are essential in driving this process too.

事实表明蛋白质在这个过程中,也起了重要的作用

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The mortality of the human being is a reality and it's of the greatest significance and importance, and of course men are not as strong and as powerful as the gods.

人终有一死,这是事实,这是最重要最显著的一点,当然人类也不像神那么强壮有力

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So in this 40-minute interval we've gone sort of through an emotional musical journey here from despair, despondency, uncertainty, to whatever- to personal triumph, and in a way that mirrors some of the things that were going on in Beethoven's life.

在这四十分钟的乐曲里,我们走完了一趟情感丰富的音乐旅程,从消沉沮丧,到半信半疑,再到个人胜利,其实在某种意义上也反映了事实,贝多芬的人生,也将经历相似的历程

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

This graph shows some of it as well, but in this case for children, in the left hand side you see the ideal composition of the diet according to government recommendations that the diet should be partitioned in this way.

这个图表也揭示了一些类似的事实,不过是在儿童饮食中的情况,在左边你看到的是理想的饮食组合,按照政府的推荐食谱,食物应该这样搭配

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

They were very suspicious of the democratic tendencies, or so it seemed, the democratic tendencies of that northern society which was spreading literacy more widely, and eventually the right to vote more widely, at least among white people.

他们也对民主倾向表示怀疑,事实就是如此,有着民主倾向的北方社会,文化教育的开展更为广泛,因而更广大人民有着投票权,至少大部分白人有投票权

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

I regard the last few weeks as politicians deciding we gotta do something to get this off the table of the agenda to something that has a political demand for it What they did, they could have done worse things, they could have done better things.

在我看来，一直到前几个星期,政治家们才觉得自己该做点什么了,不能继续把这件事束之高阁而迟迟不行动,而应当将其转化为一种政治诉求,至于他们所做的一切，已是既定事实，他们原本或许会做得更糟，但也有可能更好，这个很难讲。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Not thinking about those facts that I knew at one point-- just not all that objectionable.

不去想这些我一度知道的事实-,也不是那么有异议的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But the demonstration also illustrated another fact about language, which is how different languages are.

但这个演示也阐明了语言的另一个事实,即语言如何不同

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If there's something sort of degrading or unnoble about being a person who is going to become a corpse, committing suicide doesn't alter that fundamental fact either.

如果成为一个,将会变成尸体的人,有什么可耻或是不体面的话，自杀也不能改变这个基本的事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I think it does factor into her sense that the truth she is accessing, or the truth that she is trying to present to the world in her stories, is one that even a child might be able to understand.

我想这确实是一个因素能让她觉得,她所触及的事实，或者说她通过故事向世人呈现的事实，连一个孩子也可能理解。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But it's also possible-- actually compatible with accepting that fact-- there are two additional possibilities, that there might be some negative interaction effects.

但同样也有可能-,事实上与接受这个事实一致-,有另外两种可能性，可能会产生负面的相互影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So even if it were true that belief requires picturing, and even if were true that you can't picture being dead from the inside, it wouldn't follow that you can't believe you're going to die.

所以即便不能相信无法想象之物这一说法，是真实的,人无法从内部想象死亡的感觉，也不代表不能相信自己会死亡这事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选