Past isn't something to be glamorized to be the nostalgic about, sentimental about, because the past is gone.

过去不是用来让我们美化的,也不是让我们怀旧感伤的，因为过去了的就成了历史，消失不在了。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

We think we understand when we see the past from a historical standpoint, i.e., place ourselves in the historical situation and seek to reconstruct the historical horizon.

当我们从历史的角度看待过去，我们以为自己理解，也就是说，把自己放在历史的条件下,重新构建历史的视角。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It illustrates again this idea that how much of this ancient text is it important for you to know, on its own terms,in its historical context in the first century, or how is it important for you to know in the way it's been interpreted for the last 2000 years?

这又一次说明了,你对这部古代文本的了解，是对其本身100年间历史脉络的了解，还是在过去2000年间被解读的,哪个更为重要？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Its composition is influenced and determined by literary conventions and goals. Now, of course we all know that there is no such thing as purely objective history anyway. We have no direct access to past events.

它的形成是受文学的惯例和目的影响和决定的,当然现在我们都知道了没有什么是纯客观的历史,我们没有直接通向过去事件的途径。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The graph is something I showed you on the first day of class, that over the last hundred years in particular, but what's shown on this slide is over the last 300 years.

第一节课我就给你们展示过这幅图,该图特别地关注了近一百年的情况,但它涵盖了过去三百多年的历史

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选