Levi-Strauss writes: Whatever may have been the moment and the circumstances of its appearance in the scale of animal life, language could only have been born in one fell swoop.

列维，施特劳斯写道：,不论语言是何时何种环境下,在动物的历史中诞生的，语言只可能是一刹那间诞生。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Second of all, there's generally an account of the historical circumstances that are leading to the treaty: so some kind of historical prologue.

第二个，交代一下,签订契约的，大的历史环境,也就是，历史开场白。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And then next time, next Wednesday-- - because remember we're not meeting on Monday-- next Wednesday, I'll do a similar kind of lecture for everything you need to know about Ancient Judaism, to put the New Testament into its historical context.

下次课上，下周三-,周一没课-,下周三，我会讲你们需要了解的,古代犹太教的知识，将新约放在历史环境中进行研究。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

There's now an environmental history being written of the impact of the Market Revolution.

如今人们正在编纂一部环境的历史,内容是自然环境受到市场革命后的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选