While Milton decided against writing an explicitly political nationalist poem, he did see himself as writing a poem that performed some kind of political function.

尽管弥尔顿决定要写的不是,有政治性的民族主义诗歌，他也让这首诗,发挥了一定政治作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

You must love loyal advisors and servants, whether they be foreigners or our own people, and spare no effort to serve the common good."

你一定要热爱俄国那些忠诚的大臣和臣民,不管他是来自外国还是国内,同时你也必须不遗余力地为公共利益服务"

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So you'd have a patron who would be higher class, richer, more powerful, have some political power, and you would be loyal to your patron, and your patron would then represent you in court, try to get you jobs, try to get you more business, do all the kinds of things that patrons do for their clients.

要找个比你社会地位高，比你有钱有权，有一定政治影响力的庇护人，你也要忠诚于他，庇护人会在法庭上代表你，帮你找工作，帮你介绍生意，各种庇护人为被庇护人做的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

As far as I know we're getting him, so I hope that you will all be able to come this Friday, here, at the usual time.

我知道他一定会来,所以我希望你们周五也能来,老时间,老地点

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I guess Apollo must have then said, he's reached wisdom and so he sent a rain storm to put the fire out and he lived through that.

我猜阿波罗一定曾经说过,他很有智慧,所以就派遣暴风雨来浇灭火焰,而他也确实经受住了这一切

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He has much the same function and to some degree much of the same personality as what we would call a modern day CEO, that is to say there is a kind of anonymity and impersonality about the sovereign.

在一定程度上讲,他有着我们今天所谓的CEO的,一些义务和特性，也就是说,君主兼有一种非人格化的特性。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选