For Gadamer the important thing is that the meaning be true, right, and that's where the distinction essentially lies.

对伽达默尔来说重要的是真实的意义，这就是二者的不同之处的核心。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

What they do is kind of unique, in comparison to when you think of someone who is a traditional scholar of Islam someone who would run a mosque for example.

与其他相比，这个项目的特别之处在于,当你想到一个传统意义上的穆斯林学者时,你会想到一个主持清真寺的人。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He permits a real character like Satan to interact with a merely allegorical or symbolic character like Sin. The effect for Johnson - and who can say that this is -- that Johnson is wrong?

他允许一个真实的角色如撒旦与仅仅是寓言中才出现的,或只具备象征的意义的人物如罪恶之神互动,谁又能说约翰逊是错的呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It has to do with the god Hermes who conveyed language to man, who was in a certain sense, among many other functions, the god of communication, and hermeneutics is, after all, obviously about communication.

它与赫耳墨斯，即教给人类语言的神祇有关，从某种意义上来说，赫耳墨斯是沟通之神，所以诠释学显然和沟通交流有关。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That's some sense of the spectrum of magazines that are coming out, and all with different roles to play in this culture and that position their writers and poets and artists associated with them in different ways.

对于设定即将出版的杂志的基调，以及它们在文学发展中扮演的不同角色,作家诗人和艺术家们以不同方式与之相连的地位,都具有一定的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

What Modigliani and Miller said, if it's pure dividend policy, then it is totally irrelevant; it means nothing, so companies can do whatever they please-- I don't care.

莫迪利阿尼和米勒的观点是,如果是单纯的股利政策,则与之完全不相关,它没有意义,所以公司可以任意施为,我不在乎

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Control of gene expression is a very big topic and so I'm going to show you one cartoon to sort of tell you that it is a big topic that's really important.

基因表达的调控是个大课题,我给你们放一些动画,好让你们理解,其涉及范围之广,意义之重

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But I would like to give you some of the rudiments about nutrition, especially about how we measure nutrition and then what it means for health, and we'll talk more about that in the next class.

但我很乐意教给你们一些营养学基础知识,尤其是如何评估营养,及其对健康的意义之所在,下一堂课我们会更加深入地探讨

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

To know history, put on the god's knowledge with his power, would be to have access to history's meaning, and therefore to be more than merely subject to it, subject to its capricious and violating forces.

懂得历史，把上帝之智与力结合，才能接近历史的真实意义，否则只是受过历史的影响而已，被动无力地承受着历史的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

There is first the understandable aesthetic power, the power of the beauty of Milton's verse, an aesthetic power that's often thought or felt to inhere somewhere in the poetry itself.

首先是美学上的力量，这是可以理解的，弥尔顿的诗句之美的力量，一种美学意义上的力量,大家通常认为或觉得这是弥尔顿诗歌本身固有的一种力量。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选