You want to think about how much attention and primacy we should give to an author's statements about what her work mean--as readers.

对于作者对自己作品的阐述和说明,我们怎么注意,怎么给予优先度也不为过。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And this is line 679: Why should you be so cruel to yourself, And to those dainty limbs which nature lent For gentle usage and soft delicacy?

在第679行：，你为什么要对自己那么残忍，对于大自然赋予我们的四肢,只文雅的使用和温和的对待佳肴？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But, one of the things I'm interested in is national identity, in fact because we kind of have complex attitudes toward our own identity I suppose, me and my family.

不过有一个我感兴趣的就是国家身份,其实因为我们对于自己身份,的看法比较复杂,我和我的家庭

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

and so I trust that it's easily intelligible as I read it to you now.] In fact, however, we have given up the claim to find, in the past, any truth valid and intelligible for ourselves.

所以我相信现在我读的时候大家一定会更容易理解],事实上，我们已经放弃了从过去中寻找,对于自己来说靠得住的，可以理解的事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

More than a third of people on Facebook have their cellphone up there and that's something that's useful for the application.

事实上，超过三成的Facebook用户,都公布了自己的手机号,所以这个应用程序对于我们来说,十分重要。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选