There's plainly a tendency in modern literary theory to reduce all the tropes of rhetoric to just these two terms.

在现代文学理论中有一个很明显的趋势,那就是减少一切华丽的辞藻，只保留这两个。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We even have entire disciplines like economics and psychology and I dare even say modern political science that reinforced this view of human nature.

看吧，我们有一整套经济学,和心理学的理论服务于个人,而且我敢说，在现代政治科学上,更是强调了人的个体特性。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And we're going to talk about the best modern theories as to why these syndromes occur.

我们将讨论最佳的现代理论,来解释这些综合症产生的原因

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now, you don't have to buy that and individuals undoubtedly found the strain too much from time to time, but what's interesting, is rather the ideal, the claim, the theory.

你不必非得接受这些理论,况且现代社会常充斥着个人主义倾向,但是那些理想,主张和理论却更意味深长

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I then want to take the time to consider whether or not we should believe this and how well it fits with our modern science.

接下来的时间我想来和大家讨论一下,弗洛伊德的理论是否可信,以及弗洛伊德的理论,在多大程度上是符合现代科学的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In many ways Aristotle there offers, as does Plato, a certain kind of critique of the modern or even the ancient democratic theory of freedom, which is living as one likes.

亚里士多德在很多方面所提出的和柏拉图相似，都是一种对现代,或甚至古代自由民主理论的评判，也就是过一个人想过的生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选