Behind this environment are the great social processes of migration and modernization that produced that new urban form, the metropolis.

在这种环境背后是移民和现代化的重大社会进程,所带来的新的城市形式，即大都市。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So, we have a kind of image there of the autonomous aesthetic pleasure, right, the pleasure of imagination that's taken alone, according to one's own thoughts rather than in some broader, more social form.

好了，这就是一种自发的美学享受的情景,对，这就是独自幻想的乐趣，它出自人自己的想法，而不是一些更宽广的概念，不是一些更社会化的形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We're hoping today to touch on both areas of that, both the personal spirituality and religious experience and also some questions of religion in America: how religion takes its various forms and different communities, depending on their social location.

接下来我们会就这两方面展开讨论，会谈到个人的信仰，宗教经历,也会谈到美国的宗教问题：,宗教在不同群体下,拥有多种呈现形式，因社会地点不同而相异。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选