We know what prejudice has wrought historically and socially, so how can we try to vindicate it in this way?

偏见对历史对社会都发生了作用，所以我们如何证明偏见是正确的呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

so it is as crucial as ever to understand theory At the same time, we have the vantage point of, I suppose, what we can now call history.

因此去理解理论一直以来都是至关重要的,以此同时我想，我们处在，历史的有利位置。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Its composition is influenced and determined by literary conventions and goals. Now, of course we all know that there is no such thing as purely objective history anyway. We have no direct access to past events.

它的形成是受文学的惯例和目的影响和决定的,当然现在我们都知道了没有什么是纯客观的历史,我们没有直接通向过去事件的途径。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And one of the things I pointed out is that the people in our history, who have been the most humble, have been our Generals and our Presidents, and until this one who fought wars.

有一点我想指出的是,纵观美国历史，最为谦逊的，都是我们伟大的将军和总统们，直到现在这个好战的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

It's a very important industry and it's also one in which many of our students have found jobs, so I think it's important for us to try to understand the history of investment banks, the role they have in our financial community, and how they're regulated.

投资银行是一个非常重要的行业,我们许多学生都在投资银行工作,我们需要,了解投资银行的历史,在我们金融业扮演的角色,以及人们如何监管投资银行

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选