What the Dutch painters painted reflects in the same way that Renaissance art reflected what was important to Renaissance Italy.

如同意大利的作品反映出文艺复兴的精髓,荷兰画家的作品,同样映射出当时的社会文化特点

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

There is this social context of race relations whose grammar he is also learning, and I would just remind you of the passage where he starts to ask his mother about whether his granny is white or not.

一种来自家庭无可绘状的影响,当时社会的种族对立，对他学习的语言也有很深的影响,各位看一下当他问母亲,祖母是白人还是黑人？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So, practitioners who understood what we would know to be chemistry were highly valued in that society. And then, you may expand it to other chemical processes, dyeing of cloth, glassmaking, and metals extraction.

所以，理解我们所知为化学的,先行者们，在那个社会是,非常宝贵的，当时，你可能将其扩展到另一个化学过程，如布料的染色，玻璃的制造，还有金属提取。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

He is full of a kind of understandable self-pity, and his speeches are in some ways more characteristic of the gloomy intellectual milieu that is reflected in Chekhov's text really than almost anyone else's.

他身上有种合理的顾影自怜感，而在契诃夫的原文里,他的言论差不多是,最典型地反映当时晦暗的社会思想环境的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

to rise and to say anything was a violation of the culture, and that's one of the places where you see where this sharp line exists. They just take orders, but the gentlemen don't just take orders.

起身反抗和发表见解是有违当时的文化的,从这一点可以看出当时社会,森严的等级界限,普通人只能服从指挥,但是有地位的人不仅接受命令

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And to try to explain why it was that absolute rule came to europe at the time it did, one has to not only look at the particular structures of states, but one has to look at the overview and the sheer horror of it all.

要解释为什么绝对主义在这个时候遍行于欧洲,我们不仅要着眼于各国特有的社会结构,还要纵观全局,了解当时社会上的恐慌

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And in later letters in this series between her and Richard, and also in the review that she wrote up for the Book of the Month Club newsletter), she invokes the Nazis specifically as a comparison to the kind of oppression that Richard was trying to escape in the South.

她在之后与理查的通信中，把理查在南方,与德国纳粹做比较，当时社会的主流思想,就是在为了美国式的理想,为了自由而战。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选