It is not a world in which language can be understood as somehow or another a means of expressing thought.

在索绪尔眼中的世界，语言不能被理解为,表达思想的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Theodicy is the term coined by the eighteenth-century philosopher Leibniz, and he applied this term theodicy to just that kind of philosophical sentiment that's implied by its etymology.

斯奥迪斯是由18世纪哲学家莱布尼兹创造的，他用斯奥迪斯这个词指代,它的语源表达的哲学思想。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This is 1913, Pound in London, styling himself, isn't he, after those Renaissance artists and poets whom he would write about, translate in this period.

这是1913年庞德在伦敦，图如其人，不是吗？,这是在他所要写到的那些文艺复兴时期的艺术家，和诗人的思想被很好的表达出之后拍摄的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Again as I said this is my version of it, but you can see, every one of the examples we've used so far has that pattern to it.

形成了迭代的思想，我还是想用我的话，来表达表达，但是你们可以看到,我们讲过的每个例子都用到了这个模式。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

with a piece of popular music you get a single ethos, a single feeling,a single mood associated with the piece, and the piece will tend to be shorter.

在流行乐里，一首歌只表达一个中心思想，一种感觉，一种情绪，所以这首作品也就会短小一些。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

In particular, all languages, at minimum, are powerful enough to convey an abstract notion like this; abstract in the sense that it talks about thoughts and it talks about a proposition and spatial relations in objects.

尤其是所有的语言都至少,能够有效地表达抽象概念,在某种意义上来说,抽象概念能够表达思想,能够表述物体的位置与空间关系

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选