In other words, I'm arguing that the saturation of these speeches with signs of words, language, speaking, words, books, is just the dilemma of the character.

换言之，我认为这些演讲之所以会充斥着,字词，语言，言论和书籍，其实只是一种进退维谷的困境。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The pressure points come when the issues are so close to the bone that a variety of people don't feel that they had the luxury to do that, that their interests, their commitments are threatened.

有时也有一些压力,这时话题通常比较敏感，许多人,觉得言论自由成为了一种奢侈品，他们的兴趣和信仰都受到了威胁。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And this is in the wake of the Dred Scott decision.

这一言论紧随在德雷德史考特裁决案之后发表

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But this reading of the Apology as you might say is a kind of brief for freedom of expression and a warning against the dangers of censorship and persecution.

但阅读《苏格拉底自辩篇》，你可能会说,好似一种对言论自由的概述,还有对审查,及迫害危机的警告。

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There's an extraordinary sense of verbal chaos, a kind of word hoard that modern poetry and modernism -generally, a kind of linguistic environment of great complexity from which modern poetry and modernism emerge.

这里关于口头言论的混乱有一种独特的理解，关于现代诗歌和现代性的隐藏理解,总之，是一种关于语言环境的庞大复杂性的理解,现代诗歌和现代性即是由此产生发展。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He had not only written really quite daringly on behalf of the execution of this particular king, but he wrote another pamphlet, Eikonoklastes , which is a shocking defense of just regicide in general - not just in England, but as a kind of political principle.

他不仅对处死国王一事大胆的发表言论,还写了另外一本书，《圣容破坏者》,这本书为正义的弑君做了惊人的辩护,-不仅是在英国的这次弑君，还是一条普遍的政治原则。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There are lots of things to be said against it, on the other hand, which I don't want to pause over now because I think a course of lectures on literary theory will inevitably show the ways in which paraphrase is inadequate to the task of rigorous interpretation.

另一方面，有很多反对这个的言论，我不想在此,停下来讲,因为我觉得一门,文学理论上的课不可避免地,会包括一些释意所无法，充分解释的方面,一个严苛的评论家克林斯。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I think we genuinely have a free speech tradition.

我们真的有一种言论自由的传统。

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