I'm going to do that at the end for this reason: that it has such a special place in the imagination of our culture.

但是现在我放到最后讲是因为：,它在提供我们文化的想象力方面地位如此特殊。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So the composer in the West is very important, more important than the composer in other cultures.

所以在西方,作曲家的地位是非常重要的,比其他文化中的作曲家更重要

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

But many cultures focus on an ethics of community, bringing together duty, status, hierarchy, and interdependence.

但很多文化则重于集体道德，强调义务，地位，等级制度，互相依赖。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

More typically,one aspect of the culture dominates rather than the other.

更普遍的,是文化中某一部分,较另一部分更占主导地位

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Economics deals with the transactions involving the production and distribution of wealth sociology with the transaction governing status and class anthropology with the domain of culture and so on.

经济学处理,包含财富生产与分配的交易,社会学处理,管治地位与阶级的问题,人类学专注于文化，依此类推。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I'm going to talk about the centralization of the French State and the question of why Paris--and that's kind of fun to talk about- and the role of Paris in centralization, and the particular role of Paris in French economic, political, social and cultural life.

一是讲法国政府的集权化统治,还有巴黎为什么 谈论这个很有意思,巴黎在中央集权政府中的地位,以及其在法国经济,社会,文化领域中的地位

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

They do, but it doesn't intersect quite as intensely as musical notation does in Western cultures.

他们的确有,但他们的记谱法并没有贯穿文化的始终,比不上音乐记谱法在西方文化中的地位

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选