Yeasts suggests that we think of this historical moment as the Second Coming.

叶芝建议我们,把这个历史性的时刻,想成是第二次降临。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Remember how Yeats represents history as rape in "Leda and the Swan."

记住叶芝在丽达与天鹅里,把历史表述成强奸“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But yet when you look back from the nineteenth century, these factors do count in explaining how countries turn out to be the way they are.

不过当你从十九世纪开始回顾历史,这些因素的确能解释,国家是如何转变成现在这样的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

A number of men, as one historian has written, I think quite effectively, "Mounted from log cabin to mansion" and I quote "On a stairway of cotton bales accumulating slaves as they went."

一些人就像一位历史学家写的那样,我觉得非常犀利,引述一段,"小木屋通往大厦的阶梯正是由,奴隶们用棉花包堆积成的"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

That, he says, has been our history and what it should say, what it doesn't quite say I think, is that it has been this history not because it is American but because it is a republic, because of its regime type, its regime character.

的共和国，他说，那已经成为了我们的历史,它应该被说成，我认为言下之意是,它已经成为这种历史并非因为它是美国人的,而是因为它是个共和国，因为,它的政权类型，它的政权性质。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选