But there's extra, again, insult to injury, when the person's got to remember that he used to be something extraordinary, a ruler.

但当这人不得不记着，他曾经位高权重，是统治者的时候,这又一次，是在伤口上撒盐。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There are some who believe that slavery is natural, because ruling and being ruled is a pervasive distinction " that one sees all societies practice."

有些人相信,奴役是自然的演变，因为统治者与被统治者,有着普遍的区别,一方要看顾着整个社会的运作“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But there's a theoretical framework, and it will catch up with the French monarchs, among others, later-- that the ruler must be a father, a benevolent figure.

不过,有一种理论框架,使法国的君主终自食恶果,这种理论认为统治者必是父亲一样善良的人

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

His father was a democrat in czarist Russia, and he was quite a reformer. At the time that the Bolsheviks took over in 1919, there was a brief window of time prior to the family's flight.

他的父亲在沙皇俄国是一个民主党人，他是一个改革家，当时布尔什维克党在1919年统治者俄国,他们家在那之后很快就离开俄国。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In the overall attitude of the planter class and the leadership class of the American South by the 1840s and 1850s, some were born to rule and some born to be ruled.

美国南方的19世纪40年代和50年代时,在普遍的种植园主阶级观念,和领导阶级观念中,有些人天生是统治者,有些人天生是被统治者

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And that explains the succession of rulers that have held the region: the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Israelites, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Greek Ptolemies, the Seleucids, the Romans, and the list continues as we go on into the medieval and the modern periods.

这也解释了众多的统治者占领这一地区的原因：,埃及人，亚摩利人，以色列人，亚述人，巴比伦人，波斯人，希腊人，希腊的托勒密人，塞琉西人，罗马人，这个列表可以继续下去,如果我们考察中世纪和现代时期。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Some were born to rule.

有些人天生是统治者

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Aristotle does not rule out the possibility of such a person emerging a person of what he calls excessive virtue almost hyperbolic excellence he says who stands so far above the rest as to deserve to be the natural ruler overall.

亚里士多德并未排除,这种人出现的可能性，一位他认为,具有过多美德，及几近夸张的卓越特质,他说，能持续凌驾众人之上的人,值得成为全面性的自然统治者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选