Right? Most of them aren't,or about half of them, I think,are not in the Bible,and yet they're very important for the history of Western Civilization.

但是大多数其实并不是，至少一半不是，但是对西方文明历史,却有着极其重要的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

He was a Victorian historian preoccupied with the dissolution of Western civilization.

他是一个维多利亚时代的历史学家,专门研究西方文明的瓦解。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Here it is not just the venerability of slavery, how old it is, but it's the idea that it has been crucial to the development of all great civilizations.

不仅仅讨论奴隶制的庄严性与历史由来,更是它曾经对人类文明的发展,起过至关重要的作用

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

So, I want to turn now to the way in which this way of thinking had an impact on the future, and of course I'm speaking about the future of Western civilization which was the heir to this tradition.

所以,我现在想说的是,这样的思考方式对之后的历史有着重大影响,当然,我所说的之后的历史,是对西方文明而言的,因为西方文明继承了这个传统

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Non-Western peoples who wish to share in the things that characterize modernity will need to study the ideas and history of Western civilization to achieve what they want, and westerners, I would argue, who wish to preserve these things must do the same.

希望分享西方现代特点的,非西方人士需要学习,西方文明的思想和历史,以实现自己的理想,而对西方,而我要说,那些希望,保留自身文明的西方人,也必须做相同的事

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选