It takes up his lifelong quest to reconcile extremities, and to achieve some kind of unity of being.

他一生都在极端之间妥协，为达到某种存在的结合。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

After a life spent in what our people look upon as comfort, his end was surpassingly glorious.

在度过了我们觉得舒适的一生后,他的结局也很荣耀

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It's reasonable, I think, to invoke Dr. Johnson here, Samuel Johnson, who writes in his Life of Milton that Milton's unskillful allegory appears to be one of the greatest faults of the poem.

我认为在这引用塞缪尔·约翰逊的话是很合理的，他一生都在写关于弥尔顿的文章,他指出弥尔顿不熟练的寓言成为了这部诗的大败笔之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Hobbes was deeply controversial, as you might suspect, during his lifetime.

霍布斯在他的一生里，你们可能察觉到了，是很具有争议性的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Before he was guillotined he dictated his life.

他在被送上断头台之前述说了他的一生

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Appropriately enough, he was stabbed to death in a traffic jam in Paris when his carriage gets blocked in the center of Paris, and this mad monk sticks a big knife into him.

他是在巴黎拥挤的街道上被刀捅死的,这对他的一生真是绝妙的讽刺,当时他的马车被堵在巴黎市中心,有个疯狂的修士用一把大匕首捅死了他

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Trouble the Water; a novel about growing up in the South by Melvin Dixon, a great novel that gets little attention, and his lifelong struggle to understand just how Southern he was in New York.

再如梅尔文·迪克逊的《水的困扰》,是一本关于南方的成长经历的小说,一本伟大却不出名的小说,他终其一生都在试图理解,为何他在纽约那么像个南方人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Now, C. Vann Woodward weighed in on this, a great historian, worked here much of his life.

现在还有个C·凡·沃德沃的历史学家,他一生很多时间都在研究南方

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选