to earn his favor and perhaps his protection, But even that god will have limited powers and abilities and may in fact be defeated or may turn on his devotees.

来赢利他的青睐或者是保护，但纵然是上帝，权力和能力也是有限的,事实上，他也许会被打败，或者发动他的崇拜者。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But this was a legal situation to try to keep this balance of power among households.

但这只是法定情形,以保持家户间权力平衡。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

As we shall see that word in later times means some powerful individual, but it doesn't mean what it means here, the boss, the single monarchical controller of everything.

正如我们所见,这个词之后用来形容有权力的人,但在那时,它有一个不同的含义,代表首领,君临万物

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It is the product, the creation of the people or of what we might call, in Jeffersonian language, it is the product of the consent of the governed.

我们可以说它是人民权力的产物,但若用杰斐逊的话讲，我们也可以说它是，统治者们互相默许下的产物。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But along with this conceptual framework, provided by none other than Thomas Hobbs in England, who had lived through the English Civil War and thought that you shouldn't mess around with this rights business, you need some sort of big powerful monarch there-- but there was a sense inherent in all of this.

但与之同存的另一种观点,是英国最具代表性的托马斯·霍布斯提出的,他经历过英国内战,且认为君主不该滥用手中权力,你需要的是一个有权利的君主,但这其中有一些内在的概念

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选