It's a kind of hauntedness that surrounds Nabokov's vision of aesthetic bliss as one's response to that autonomous artwork.

这样对艺术作品，自主性的回应,对Nabokov的审美幸福观点而言，是挥之不去的困扰。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Eight features of literary modernism: An obsession with the idea of art's autonomy, the idea that art is its own law, that it responds to no other laws, that it has no other purpose than its own purposes.

第一，对艺术意志自由问题的困扰,对艺术是自身的法律，它不响应其他准则,它只有本身这唯一的目的，也就是说。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

What bothers Socrates most about our democracy is a certain kind of instability, its tendency to be pulled between extremes of anarchy, between lawlessness and tyranny.

苏格拉底对我们民主最感困扰的是,不稳定性，倾向于失序两端,拉扯的特性，即介于目无法纪与专制之间。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And this most horrible combination of facts drives him-- and he's already suffered from the hybris and the ate and his retribution is terrible in his.

上述两个可怕事实使得他...,他已遭受极度自大和道德无视的困扰,而对他暴虐行为的惩戒是很可怕的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The problem of memory is just as important to the psychological dynamics of the fall of Adam and Eve, but as we will see when we look at Book Four, surely it's the problem of the poet's memory that's the most troubling in Paradise Lost.

记忆的问题的重要性与,亚当与夏娃堕落后心里的变化相当，但是我们将在第四册书看到，确实是诗人自己记忆的问题,困扰着《失乐园》这部作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Trouble the Water; a novel about growing up in the South by Melvin Dixon, a great novel that gets little attention, and his lifelong struggle to understand just how Southern he was in New York.

再如梅尔文·迪克逊的《水的困扰》,是一本关于南方的成长经历的小说,一本伟大却不出名的小说,他终其一生都在试图理解,为何他在纽约那么像个南方人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

This is why political philosophy is always and necessarily a potentially disturbing undertaking.

这就是为何政治哲学总是,且必然是一项具有潜在困扰的工作。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选