And he's parodying both kinds of response in this novel, so in that sense, the novel is very much of its time.

在小说中他模仿了两种方式的应答，从这个意义上说这本小说很有它的时代价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Many of us think that given the valuable and precious thing that life is, suicide makes no sense.

许多人认为生命被赋予了有价值的,珍贵的东西，自杀是毫无意义的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

You shrug them off as unimportant, ? they give you heartburn, ? they are meaningless, they are critical, what do you do with that?

对此不屑一顾呢，还是心生忌妒，它们毫无意义呢，还是说有重要参考价值，分析一下看看？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

In other words, a connotation is valuable and ought to be invoked even if it's philologically incorrect if it contributes to the unity, the complex building up of the unity, of the literary text.

也就是说,如果隐含意义是文本更具有一致性,它就是有价值,且值得探究的，即使从语言学角度说，它是不正确的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But again, both are meaningful as well as valuable.

两者同样有意义有价值。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Modern poetry arises, in Eliot's case, with the death of God, with the loss of a theological justification for life, with a sense of disenchantment, a sense of depletion, depletion of meaning and value.

在艾略特而言，现代诗歌的兴起，与对上帝信仰的消失，以及对生活不再在理论使其合理化，及人们的觉醒，对意义和价值的耗尽是相伴相随的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Now, think about what it would mean ? to accept a valuable container theory.

现在想想它的意义,接受有价值容器理论的意义为何。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选