When Alexander gets to Persia, or let's say when he gets to Egypt, he knows that there is this god Isis, this female god Isis, that's very important.

亚历山大抵达波斯时，这么说吧，他来到埃及后，发现当地有个叫艾西斯的神，这位艾西斯女神地位非常崇高。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Particularly if you're of equal status, you have a common goal, and you have social support makes you like people more.

尤其是你们处于平等的社会地位，你们有共同的目标，有社会支持,这会使得你更喜欢别人。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And although you were a freedman, - which was lower in status than a free person-- - there were some privileges you couldn't have-- your children would be, if they were born after you'd been freed, would be free people, not freed.

虽然奴隶成为了自由人，自由人的社会地位低于自由民-,有一些权利无法享受-,自由人的孩子，如果是出生于奴隶被释放后的，则会成为自由民，而不是自由人。

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And there is much in his writing that recalls the sort of extraordinary virtues and capacities of the citizens of the ancient republican city-state.

他的著作当中有许多响应,特别是美德,以及公民地位的论点,那是属于古代城邦共和所独有。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And indeed there must be virtually a ritual of that recognition.

实际上还要有承认其地位的某种仪式

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

What worries you about America today, terrorism, wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, economy, the deficit, medicare, social security or America's place in the world, which many say sliping or begining to slip?

今天的美国哪些地方让你担心呢，恐怖主义，对伊拉克和阿富汗战争，经济，赤字，医疗保险，社会保障,还是美国的国际地位，有人称美国的地位正在或开始下滑？

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Right, we see in this passage something that reveals so much about what the Greek values were and you'll see how closely they were tied up with the polis and the primacy of the polis in their lives.

对的,我们在这篇文章中,看到了很多揭示希腊人价值观的东西,你们能看到他们和城邦以及城邦在他们,生命中至高无上的地位之间有多么紧密相连

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

El According to Canaanite mythology, Baal defeated El, and assumed his position at a certain point as the head of the Canaanite pantheon, so there was a switch in Canaanite mythology, from El to Baal becoming supreme.

根据迦南神话，Baal打败了，在某一时期担任了职务,作为迦南万神庙的首领，因此迦南神话中有一个转折，从El至高无上的地位到Baal的无上地位。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So you'd have a patron who would be higher class, richer, more powerful, have some political power, and you would be loyal to your patron, and your patron would then represent you in court, try to get you jobs, try to get you more business, do all the kinds of things that patrons do for their clients.

要找个比你社会地位高，比你有钱有权，有一定政治影响力的庇护人，你也要忠诚于他，庇护人会在法庭上代表你，帮你找工作，帮你介绍生意，各种庇护人为被庇护人做的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

to rise and to say anything was a violation of the culture, and that's one of the places where you see where this sharp line exists. They just take orders, but the gentlemen don't just take orders.

起身反抗和发表见解是有违当时的文化的,从这一点可以看出当时社会,森严的等级界限,普通人只能服从指挥,但是有地位的人不仅接受命令

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选