This is what she wrote as a young girl: "Sometimes a sense of loneliness covers me like a cold mist I sit alone and wait at life's shut door.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

These implicitly make a claim to the generality--at the national scale, or in the racial sense-- the representativeness of this life.

而不是一个特定的人,这暗含了一种普遍性，在民族范围内或者在种族意义上来看-,来表现这种生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

You have to choose. Well, critics took it fairly straightforwardly as the account of a life and in that sense, taking it that way, some of them were a little disappointed with what they held in their hands.

你必须做出取舍,批评家十分直截了当地，把它看成是生活的流水帐,因此有些人会对他们手中的书稍有失望。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"And I also knew how important music was in my own life,and how much fun, and what a sense of community the music of the mountains brings."

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

His works seem less theoretical constructing abstract models of political life than advice-giving, in the sense of serving as a sort of civic-minded arbiter of public disputes.

他的著作较不偏向理论,建构政治生活的抽象模型看来,反而较像是提供建言，功能像是一种公益型的裁决,旨在处理公共争端。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Modern poetry arises, in Eliot's case, with the death of God, with the loss of a theological justification for life, with a sense of disenchantment, a sense of depletion, depletion of meaning and value.

在艾略特而言，现代诗歌的兴起，与对上帝信仰的消失，以及对生活不再在理论使其合理化，及人们的觉醒，对意义和价值的耗尽是相伴相随的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But on the other hand these advances have also come at a cost. And in this story there's also a sense of longing for the freedom of life in the wild--the innocent, simple, uncomplicated life lived day to day without plans, without toil, in harmony with nature Edenic a somewhat Edenic existence.

但是，换个角度来看，人类付出了代价,才得到这些优点，在这部史诗中，同样存在着,对一种纯真，简单，纯粹生活的向往,每天生活中没有计划，辛劳，与自然和平相处,就像以前的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

This is indicative of the sense that he wants to lay bare, in a literal way, all the seaminess of human life, all the aspects of what it means to be an embodied person, all the ecstasies that come from that embodiment.

这表示他想要以一种直白的方式，暴露人类生活的所有丑恶，作为一个表现的人的所有方面，所有来源于那具体化的狂喜。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There seems to be something to that and yet Hobbes certainly regards life as a precious good, perhaps the most precious good of all, and he writes with a lively sense of how fragile and endangered life is.

看起来有点关系,霍布斯肯定珍视生命，可能把它当作最珍贵的东西，他用一种活泼感写出,人生的脆弱和危险。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选