He's actually claiming that this poem had been prophetic, that Lycidas foretold the ruin of the clergy.

他实际上是在声称这首诗是先知的，它已然预示了教会崩溃的必然。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Because when we see that something is just necessary, we-- it reduces the sting of it.

因为当我们认识到有些事是必然的-,它便感少了我们对它的痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But if they're holy, they must be pure.

蛋如果它是神圣的，它必然是纯洁的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

You can only do that by balancing competitive desires that can be thought of as evil; faction was what they were talking about and everybody thought faction was bad, but it was inevitable.

你仅仅通过平衡那些被视为罪恶的,竞争性欲望就可以达到此目的,也就是,大家所谓的派系,每个人都认为派系是不好的,但它是必然存在的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

First of all, it's not a coincidence that in both England and in the Dutch Republic you had, along with the city-states of Northern Italy, you had the largest percentage of middle-class population that you could find in Europe.

英国和荷兰共和国,以及北意大利的城邦,拥有全欧洲比例最大的中产阶级人群,这是有它的必然性的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The philosopher Spinoza thought that ... if we could only recognize the fact, what he at least took to be the fact, that everything that happens in life is necessary, then we'd get a kind of emotional distance from it; it would no longer upset us.

哲学家Spinoza认为,如果我们能够认识到这个事实，至少他认为这是事实，即生活中的一切事情都是必然的，那么它对我们的情绪影响就比较少;,它不会再让我们感到痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选