He's a literary power, a figure who could be called upon to supply the voice of tradition in itself.

他是一种文化力量，一个,可以随时用来声援传统文化的人物。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So he's held up in the British culture as being somebody that's done particularly well

所以，他非常好地继承了英国的文化传统，

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The metropolis which uproots people, takes them away, takes them out of traditional cultures, also uproots traditional religious belief and practices.

人们扎根，随之漂流的都市，将他们从传统文化中剥离出来，同时也将那些传统的信仰与实践根除。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

We are what we are because of the power and authority of the laws, the customs, the traditions, the culture that has shaped us.

我们的存在,是因为法律，习俗，传统及文化的职权与威信,这些形塑了我们。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They'll say human rights are ideas and concepts embedded in religious traditions, in cultures, in ethical traditions, and only recently have we decided to make human rights law out of it.

他们会说人权的思想和概念,根植于宗教传统，文化和道德传统中，只是近几百年来我们决定,从而确立了人权法。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Now, the second great strand in the history of the West is the Judeo Christian tradition, a very different tradition from the one I have just described.

现在,我们谈谈西方历史的第二大主线,犹太基督教传统,一种与之前谈论的截然不同的文化传统

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Well, in some sense this is exactly what modernity might be seen to be doing to traditional English culture.

某种程度上这正是现代性,被认为的对传统英国文化所产生的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The virtues endorsed by the poetic tradition of which Aristophanes is the great representative here the great inheritor and representative the virtues of this tradition were the virtues of a warrior culture of war-like peoples and men at war.

诗学传统赞同的美德,亚里斯多芬尼斯是,最佳的代表性人物,最佳的继承人与代表性人物,这项传统的美德,是战士文化的美德,关于好战人士及战场上的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So, it seems to me,that Western civilization,ever since, has been a composite of these two traditions.

因此,在我看来,西方文化从那时至今,都是两种传统的复合物

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选