So,first of all,let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless,unreasoning,unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

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In other words, perhaps to your frustration, what you read today has nothing at all, in and of itself, to tell you about literature.

所以，听起来可能会让你们沮丧，你们今天读的，和文学根本没关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

What both Derrida and de Man say about the difference when one thinks of language coming into being, from thinking about all those other things coming into being, is that language does not purport to stand outside of itself.

德里达和德曼都说的不同点,当一个人从其它所有事情的形成，想到语言的形成时，这个不同点是说语言并不会意图去站在它本身之外。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So, we've got this nice Platonic picture where Plato says, "All right. So the mind can grasp the eternal forms, but it has to free itself from the body to do that."

我们这有一个柏拉图式的场景,柏拉图说,心灵可以认知永恒的型相,但是它必须先从肉体中解脱出来

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And if your body is biologically programmed to defend itself gainst famine or starvation which is what humans and animals have faced over all the centuries then you're going to seek out the energy dense food and that's why those foods taste inherently better.

在生物学角度,你的身体本身一直在,抵御饥荒和饥饿,是人和其他动物几世纪来一直面对的问题,所以你就主动寻找高能量的食品,这也是为什么这些食品比较好吃

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Now, out of all of this, again to repeat, we are not making the argument that the Thirty Years' War itself led to absolute rule, that the growth of state structures can be seen in the beginning and the late medieval period with the consolidation of these territorial monarchies.

综上所述,我再重复一遍,我们并不能推断说,三十年战争本身导致了绝对主义的发展,国家的构建在中世纪的早期,以及晚期的领土兼并中就已经初见端倪

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