I'm perfectly capable of understanding the past in and for itself without any contribution of my own, without, in short, any preconceptions."

我十分能够理解过去,而没有自己的贡献，简单点说就是没有任何的先入之见“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And then a cultivation of the self, you have to understand you have a history You have to understand you relationship with tradition, you have a community that shaped you, a family that shaped you, sometimes good sometimes bad.

并培养自我意识，你要理解你的过去,你必须理解自己与传统的关系，理解改变过你的社区，改变过你的家庭，改变的结果或好或坏。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

We think we understand when we see the past from a historical standpoint, i.e., place ourselves in the historical situation and seek to reconstruct the historical horizon.

当我们从历史的角度看待过去，我们以为自己理解，也就是说，把自己放在历史的条件下,重新构建历史的视角。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But medium today is not what medium used to be, and because of that people really make a lot of errors in understanding how much a portion is.

但现在的中包薯条和过去的大小不同,因为这,人们理解什么是每日摄入量时,就犯了很多错误

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Now there is an irony there, because without the myth, we lose out on a great many worth to survive With myth, taken literally, we are self-fullfilling the past.

现在又多了一层讽刺的涵义，因为没了神话，很多人会觉得失去了活下去的价值,而要是我们按字面意思理解神话，我们就能填补过去的空白。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Now that seems to me a crucial understanding everything that he does That ending with the myth of the past is what he examines for the sake of articulating that.

现在对我来说很关键的是,去理解他做的一切,完成他对过去之谜探求的事业,也就是他为了阐明那一点所做的审视。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

and so I trust that it's easily intelligible as I read it to you now.] In fact, however, we have given up the claim to find, in the past, any truth valid and intelligible for ourselves.

所以我相信现在我读的时候大家一定会更容易理解],事实上，我们已经放弃了从过去中寻找,对于自己来说靠得住的，可以理解的事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选