Belial is the lovely intellectual, the intellectual seeking peace and who prizes above all things his intellectual freedom: our thoughts, as Belial puts it, our "thoughts that wander through eternity."

贝利亚是一位可爱的智者，他追求和平以及,视他智慧的自由超乎一切：，我们的思想，贝利亚认为“我们的思想永远在游荡“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Nobody sought or planned for freedom, but in the spaces that were left by the endless conflicts among secular rulers and between them and the Church, there was room for freedom to grow.

人们并没有刻意追求自由,但是在无尽的世俗冲突中,在君王与宗教的斗争中,自由得以在狭小的空间滋养生长

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

His in other words seems to be a highly personal in many ways highly individual quest for self perfection and not a doctrine about the value of freedom of speech in general.

换言之，他崇高的个人,从许多层面来看，是他崇高的个人,追求本身完美，而非关一般,言论自由价值的学说。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If you go back to the Declaration of Independence, it doesn't say: "We Americans believe these truths to be self-evident. " It says: "We believe these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, and all men are entitled to life liberty and the pursuit of happyness."

如果你回头再看看独立宣言，上面并没有说：,美国人相信,这些都是不言而喻的真理“,上面所说的是，我们相信这些真理不言而喻，从而,人人平等，所有人都拥有,人身自由，都有追求幸福的权利“

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