He said, my apologies for not answering your letter but my health is poor and--but it was a long letter.
他写道,非常抱歉没能及时回复,我身体欠佳,这是一封很长的信
You know, so he's seen me work in a lot of different contexts, so he was able to write a letter that said,
所以,他知道我在不同的环境下是如何工作的,这样他在给我写推荐信时才会说出以下这番话。
But even as black Baptist, I could have gone certain black Baptist and run out, because I must struggle against homophobia, and my profound love for gay brothers and lesbian sisters.
作为一个黑人浸信教徒,即使我去黑人浸信会,也会被赶走,因为我必须于恐同症作斗争,以及我对同性恋者们深深的爱。
What I want to point out to you is this part of her letter, the third paragraph here, where she says, "My idea is this."
大家来看,信的第三段,她说,“我认为“
So, you can confirm that for yourself at home, but in fact, if I draw a straight line, this will actually be correct.
你要是不信回去自己验证一下,事实上我画成直线,是绝对正确的
When I was a young man," he said and this is written as he is very old.
当我还年轻时“,他说到,因为这信是在他年迈时所写。
I should--I can put it up on the screen actually.
我应该把信展示到屏幕上的
Well, for the answer to that we have to go back to ancient Greek music theory, and when you read about this--it's really turgid stuff-- but believe it or not, I teach a course on this at the graduate level.
这个,要回答那个问题,恐怕要追溯到古希腊的音乐理论,每次读这些都会云山雾罩的,不管你信不信,我曾在研究生中开过这个课程
I mean, I see that the love is there, how could it not be?
我是说,我就看到了真实的爱情,我怎么还能不信呢?
As I said last time when I showed you that letter to Pound, Yeats's London apartment is essentially across the street from where the number 30 bus blew up.
上一次我说,当我给你们看他给庞德的信时,叶芝在伦敦的寓所,正好在30路车爆炸,的那条街的对面。
He wrote his son in 1704, he said, "I may die tomorrow, but be sure that you have little pleasure if you fail to follow my example.
他在一七零四年写给他的儿子信中说到,"我可能明天就死了,而如果你不能遵循我的的脚步,你是不会快乐的的
Yeah, you are going to have a spike in your level of wellbeing-- I'm sure you had a spike in your level of wellbeing when you got this acceptance letter, but very quickly we go back to our base level.
没错,你们会感觉极至的幸福-,我肯定拿到录取信时,你们的幸福感也达到峰值,但很快又恢复到基础水平。
when he has to write a letter of recommendation for me for a job.
当他要给我写求职推荐信的时候。
And then, I got the acceptance letter, like, maybe two months later.
然后我接到了录取信,大概是两个月之后吧。
And, believe it or not, I have students walk in and first thing a hand goes up and says do you have a pen? I cannot believe it.
不管信不信,我有些学生走进来,第一件事就举起手问,你有没有笔,难以置信。
Sure, so I got, I got somebody, one of them...
当然可以。给我写推荐信的人里有一位是……
And I want now to show you some of those letters that I mentioned.
好了,我要讲些,信的内容。
It doesn't matter what that letter says-- I can crumple it up and throw it in the wastebasket.
不管信上怎么说,我都可以揉成团扔进垃圾箱了
I think part of the message here is that... I want to mention just one more, I'm afraid we're out of time But believe it or not, I could talk to you for another 24 hours.
我觉得需要传达的信息是。。。,我想要再次重复一遍,我担心时间不够了,信不信由你,我可以跟你再聊,24个小时。
We have all become, whether we choose to admit it or not, Hobbesians.
不管你信或是不信,我都得说我们已经成了霍布斯笔下的那种公民。
I was tremendously interested in the letters because they so naively and sweetly asked Chad to teach him all about Nietzsche and all the wonderful intellectual things that Chad knew. At one point Carlo and I talked about the letters and wondered if we would ever meet the strange Dean Moriarty.
我对那些信极感兴趣,因为他们是如此天真烂漫讨人喜欢地让乍得,教他们一切他所了解的关于尼采的精妙的知识,卡洛和我一度一起讨论那些信,还怀疑我们是否能遇上奇怪的安莫里亚蒂。
Let me say, I am by no means convinced that the idea for the philosopher-king is an impossibility or is intended as a kind of absurdity.
我要声明,我决不采信,哲学家国王概念,不可能的说法,或说那是种荒谬的说法。
You can read them online, and I want you to read those in addition to reading the sections that I have indicated.
可以线上阅读,我希望你们在读我提到的那些部分以外,也去读读那些信。
In the forty-sixth chapter of Leviathan, a chapter we will read later, Hobbes wrote, "I believe that scarce anything can be more repugnant to government than much of what Aristotle has said in his Politics, " nor more ignorantly than a great part of his Ethics."
在《利维坦》第,46,章,我们稍后就会读到的一章,贺伯斯写到:,“我就不信有任何,更令人反感的政府可以比得上,那个亚里士多德在其《政治学》中所描述,还有一大部份的《伦理学》更是无知至极“
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