He's a black man, and he passes for his whole life as Jewish, and in doing so rejects his family.

他是黑人，并以犹太人的身份度过一生，这样做受到了家人的反对。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He says, "I dispute the pretensions of any theory which sets up an imaginary standard of justice not grounded on utility."

他说，我反对任何理论,不以功利为基础，虚构公正标准“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

That, of course, I argued in those lectures, opened it up for the threat of mortality.

当然，我在那几堂课中对此观点提出了反对意见，以必有一死的威胁反驳了它。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They will defend, quite vociferously, their privileges as townspeople against absolutist pretensions of nobles, in the case of the Netherlands and also, to an extent, in England as well.

他们奔走呼号,捍卫自己的权利,以城里人身份去反对贵族的专制野心,而在荷兰,某种程度上,同英国是一样的

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And so, in addition to philosophical arguments for and against the existence and immortality of the soul, we end the dialogue with a quite moving death scene, one of the great death scenes, if we could call it that, of western civilization.

所以,支持和反对,灵魂的存在与不朽的论证,以一个感人至深的死亡场景告终,这简直就是西方文明史上,最伟大的死亡场景之一,如果我们可以这样说的话

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选