it was a small seminar-- I had groups of students proposing two novels actually for the end of the syllabus, and the exercise gets you to think very hard about what you think this period is all about.

是以小组研讨课的方式进行-,几组学生提出两本小说,作为教学大纲上最后一本读物，这样做的练习的目的是,让你去思考这个时期的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But there is this sort of sense of uncertainty that you see in someone like Descartes, who finally just goes back to basics and says, "I think, therefore I am."

你可以在那个年代从某些人身上,看到一种怀疑的精神,比如笛卡尔,他最终逐本溯源提出"我思故我在"

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The first stage proposed by Adeimantus is the simple city, what he calls the city of utmost necessity.

由，Adeimantus，提出的第一个阶段是,简约之城，他所谓的本需之城。

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