The crucial point about the syllabus is that it indicates what reading you need to have done for any given week.

教学大纲的关键点,是指出了什么样的读物,你需要在给出的时间内完成。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There are lots of people who have pointed out to us that before a certain period, there was no such thing as man, and in a variety of quite real senses, after a certain moment in the history of culture, there is also no such thing as man.

很多人向我们指出,在某一特定时间点前是没有人类的，而且在真实意义上，在文化史中的某一特定时刻后，人类也不存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The whisper is not, Frost specifies, a "dream of the gift of idle hours.

弗罗斯特指出这些低语不是“闲散时间的白日梦“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Here is one of those moments when Aristotle, as I indicated earlier, seems most maddeningly open-minded.

这就是其中一个时间点,当亚里士多德，如我先前已指出，看似最令人抓狂地心胸开阔。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选