That, of course, I argued in those lectures, opened it up for the threat of mortality.

当然，我在那几堂课中对此观点提出了反对意见，以必有一死的威胁反驳了它。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Nihilism rejects any objective basis for society and its morality.

无政府主义反对任何,社会的客观根据和它的道德准则

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

We have to resist excessive commitment to this idea of it being a center, but it is at least not a center which somehow stands outside of itself and is a center only in the sense that it is some remote, hidden, impersonal, distant cause.

我们必须反对对这个观点过多的承诺,这个人为它是中心的观点，但它至少不是一个,以某种方式处于自身之外的中心，而只在某种意义上是中心,比如说，它有些偏僻，隐蔽，客观，遥远。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It rejects the very concept of objectivity.

它反对客观性

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选