The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

宇宙之华，万物之灵,但对于我，这尘土的精华又算得了什么？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And so--like the chainlet--it takes that stone-like distillation of life, turning rain to stone, turning life to the representation by your tormentor.

就像那条链子，它提取了,生命中如磐石般不朽的精华，将雨水变成石头，将生命变成,折磨你的人笔下的画像。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So to me I think that was really what was great about it.

所以我觉得这是我在哈佛经历的精华。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And these are super sections in just that they are superset of the class.

这些“超级课程“之所以“超级“,是因为它们是知识的精华部分。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It's a microcosm. It is a distillation or quintessence.

是真实世界的缩影，也是精华和本质的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

As one of the great readers of Plato : of the last century once said, "Only the surface of things " reveals the essence of things."

如同上个世纪一位重要的柏拉图读者,曾说到，“仅有事物的表面,尽展其精华“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

That is the good news.The bad news is there isn't a text that fits this syllabus, so we choose readings from various sources.And the text that I have chosen is the best of a bad lot.

那是个好消息，坏消息是,没有与课程大纲对应的课本，我们从很多的资源中选取阅读材料,我选的课本不过是糟粕中的精华。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Socrates makes in other words continual questioning and not the telling of stories and the recitation of verses the essence of this new political education.

苏格拉底，相对地,不断地提问，而不说故事或是朗诵韵文,这就是这种,新式政治教育的精华。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选