Hartman's absolutely right to insist that no theological concept is as important to Paradise Lost as free will on the one hand and divine providence on the other.

哈特曼有绝对的权利坚持说任何神学的概念,在中的意义都不足与匹敌自由意志的重要性,也不足以和神圣的天命相比。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's probably more oligarchic or aristocratic, but the point is this is something we haven't heard of ever before.

它很有可能更像寡头制或者贵族制,但是它的重要意义在于,它开创了历史的新纪元

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

This in itself was extraordinarily useful and constructive, not just for subsequent literary theory, I think, but for the way in which English teaching actually can help people think better.

我觉得这真的很重要而且具有建设性意义，不仅是对以后的文学理论有影响，还使得英语课堂变得,真正可以引人思考了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Now it's different in important ways because it's really focused at preventing the collapse of the economy that is created by a financial system failure.

现在，这个不同有很重要的意义,因为它真正专注于,阻止被金融系统的失败而引发的,经济的崩溃。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You're a member of these groups and, as we will discuss repeatedly when we talk about social cognition and social behavior, this membership matters a lot to you.

你们都属于其中某些群体,我们以后会反复地谈到,当我们讲社会认知和社会行为时，这种群体隶属对你有很重要的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But we do know from living cultures that people do engage in all kinds of ritual and symbolic actions because of genuine beliefs about the importance of those actions, because those rituals and symbols are extraordinarily meaningful to them.

但是我们可以在还活着的文化中知道些什么,它们蕴含在人们做的各种宗教仪式和有象征意义的行为中,因为人们诚恳地相信这些行为的重要性，因为这些仪式和象征对他们来说意义重大。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But they're all important for health in one reason or another.

但它们对健康都是有重要意义的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It's about bridging the Ivory tower and the Main Street in the area that I believe is the most important one and talks to each and every one of us.

还涉及到如何将学校与社会连接起来,这个我认为最重要的领域,对我们来说都有意义。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

What's important about the construction of St. Petersburg-- I don't know how many of you have ever been there; I haven't been there for a very, very long time-- this city is not like Moscow at all.

那么修建圣彼得堡到底有什么重要的意义呢,我不知道你们之中有多少人去过那儿,我并没有在那个地方逗留过很久,但这座城市和莫斯科完全不一样

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So, there's a wonderful thirteenth-century commentator that says that God needed creatures who could choose to obey him, And therefore it was important for Adam and Eve to do what they did And to learn that they had the choice not to obey God so that their choice for God would become endowed with meaning.

十三世纪有一位著名的评论家说,上帝需要有能力选择遵从他的生物，因此，夏娃亚当做他们所做的事情很重要,并发现他们可以选择不遵从上帝,那么他们对上帝的遵从便有了意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So Greenberg, and since him, Brettler, and many others, have argued that the principle of divine authorship has certain very important implications. First, it has a significant effect on the scope of the law.

所以Greenberg和他之后的Brettler以及其他很多学者,都认为，作者身份的神圣性原则有某些意义重大的,含意，首先，它对法律的适用范围有重要影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选