He was the average kind of increasingly corpulent.

像寻常人那样逐渐发福而已

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Now, that on the one hand is this extraordinary claim that the Greeks make. They did make amazingly powerful claims for human beings as opposed to divinity, compared to any society that I know anything about.

一方面 希腊人有这样如此不同寻常的主张,和我所了解到的其他任何社会相比,他们的确为人类做了很多强有力的辩护,以对抗神明

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Less light incorruptible here I take it in a kind of ordinary sense of the term less susceptible to bribery you can't bribe a lot of people in the way that you can a single individual.

较不易演变成贪腐，我对这词汇的诠释,是比较寻常的看法，即较不易受贿,你无法向众多人行贿,但你可以向单一个体为之。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I hope that you'll have that in the back of your head when we get to the story of Athens and the invention of democracy, because it was off the wall from the perspective of Greek tradition.

我希望,当我们讲到雅典神话,以及民主制的诞生时,你们还记得这点,因为从希腊人的传统观点来看,这是很不寻常的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选