He's covering his head in a traditional religious fashion, so in order to enter this holy place he covers his head.

他以一种传统的宗教方式包裹他的头，为了进入那个神圣的地方而包裹头。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

When I was brought up as a Catholic in Brooklyn, there wasn't a temple around the corner from where I was in the sweat lodge.

我在布鲁克林天主教传统中长大时，我的地方,附近没有寺庙。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Okay, that's a little bit of this ambiguity between major and minor in a piece of traditional Jewish music.

好了,大调和小调,在传统的犹太音乐中有些含糊的地方

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

These are ideas about laws and justice that have simply not flourished outside the Western tradition until places that were outside the Western tradition were influenced by the West.

这些关于法律和正义的思想,却完全没有传播到非西方传统的地方,直到受西方传统影响以外的地方,受到西方影响之后

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I think in some ways my hope is, maybe it's more just my optimistic spirit, my hope would be that Muslims would feel like this is the place where they could really thrive within their Muslim identity, and yet be part of the American dream.

我的希望是，这也许只是我的一厢情愿,穆斯林人民能觉得这片土地才是,穆斯林民族保持传统,繁荣昌盛的地方，但仍然是美国梦的一部分。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

How could you possibly settle there, because they settled Chalcedon first and the tradition that the Greeks pass on is the people who settle chalcedon were blind men, because you would have to be blind to make that choice.

他们怎么能建立在那个不毛之地呢,因为他们先前在卡尔西顿定居了,根据古希腊的传统记载,住在那里的人都是盲人,因为只有盲人才会去那个地方住

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选