So Deuteronomy warns repeatedly: It is by no special virtue or merit that Israel was the one chosen.

但《申命记》屡次强调：,以色列被选择并不是因为特殊的品德和功绩。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

You had to manifest strength, and firmness, and bravery, and worthy deeds that would be recognized as being real deeds by contemporaries.

沙皇要展现出雄才武略 刚强坚毅,勇敢无畏,并且在史书写满功绩,能被当代人看做不世之功

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Right. I don't want to talk about my legacy or my work.

好的，我不想谈论我留给后人的功绩或我的工作。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But the point is that this form of immortality is available to Tellus because of his place in the polis, because of the deeds he does for the polis, and that is the greatest possible payoff.

但是关键是,特勒斯之所以能成为永恒,是因为他在城邦中的地位,是因为他在城邦之中的功绩,这也许就是得以永存的最佳途径

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Plato's dialogues, the Apology as well as the Republic and the Crito are in the broadest sense of the term, an attempt not only to answer the charge against Aristophanes but also defend the cause of philosophy as something of value and merit.

柏拉图的语录《苏格拉底自辩篇》,《理想国》和《克里托篇》,以最广泛的解释看来，不仅试图响应,亚里斯多芬尼斯的控诉,同时还捍卫着,哲学的目标是价值与功绩。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The concept of the state was fundamentally new to Russia, but gradually came into existence, and his accomplishments had a lot to do with that.

彼得的治国理念对于俄国是前所未闻的,但也逐渐扎下根来,他的功绩即在于此

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Everybody knows that all those heroes are there because they want to be and they want to be there, so that they can earn both the wealth that can be taken from a defeated city, but even more important, the kind of fame and glory that comes with such deeds.

我们都知道,所有去战斗的英雄们,都是自愿的,他们想去战斗是因为,他们可以赢得从战败的城市获得的财富,更重要的是,由这些功绩带来的名望和荣誉

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选