Similarly, divination. Divination is an attempt to discern the future that, once again, heads right to the source of power.

类似的还有占卜术，占卜是一种试图看清未来的法术,它的终极目标，也是神力的源头。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

By extension we have our attempt as readers to arrive at an understanding of the first two books in general.

延伸开来，我们作为作者，试图,达成对这两卷书的大体上的理解。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And early Christianity was an attempt to pull all these things into one unified movement, in some way, to get some kind of uniformity of belief and practice.

早期基督教试图,将这些组织成统一运动，以某种方式，以获得某种划一的信仰与行动。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

When we finished last time, we were looking at John Stuart Mill's attempt to reply to the critics of Bentham's Utilitarianism.

上节课结束时，我们讲到约翰·斯图尔特·穆勒试图回应,对边沁功利主义的批判。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Sometimes the old aristocracy will be able to hold on for a very long time and to suppress any attempt to change things.

有时一些老贵族,会冥顽不灵,固执己见,试图遏止这些变革力量

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He's been directing his project for actually several years, which is an attempt to give students to a much wider range of materials that they can use to help learn about Shakespeare and his work.

他已经指导这个项目,好几年了，试图给学生机会,接触更多更广的关于莎士比亚,及其作品的资料，来帮助学习。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

And so, Descartes' attempt to establish the distinctness of the mind, the immateriality of the mind, on the basis of this Cartesian thought experiment, I think that's unsuccessful.

所以,笛卡尔试图,用他的卡式思想实验来证明,心灵的独立存在性,和非物质性,我认为这种尝试是失败的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Most of those who attempt to sell too late and buy too late and do both too often, incurring heavy expenses and developing too unsettled and speculative state of mind."

大多数试图晚卖或晚买的人,或者经常既晚卖又晚买的人会损失惨重,而且变得心神不定还特别喜欢投机

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Plato's dialogues, the Apology as well as the Republic and the Crito are in the broadest sense of the term, an attempt not only to answer the charge against Aristophanes but also defend the cause of philosophy as something of value and merit.

柏拉图的语录《苏格拉底自辩篇》,《理想国》和《克里托篇》,以最广泛的解释看来，不仅试图响应,亚里斯多芬尼斯的控诉,同时还捍卫着,哲学的目标是价值与功绩。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The superfluous action suggests that there was something more at stake, perhaps, than Saint Ebba's attempt to ward off sexual assault.

过多的行动表明，有比,圣人Ebba试图保护自己不受侵犯更有风险的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Satan resembles us as readers as we attempt to dissect and to anatomize the power of Milton's poetry.

作为读者撒旦与我们相似,试图解构剖析弥尔顿诗歌的力量。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's this sense of injustice that keeps pushing this elegy in the direction of a theodicy: an attempt to justify the ways of God.

正是这种愤愤不平使这首悼亡诗,越来越像斯奥迪斯：试图证明上帝之所为。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So here, you have an attempt to distinguish higher from lower pleasures.

至此，大家已经试图区分了高级和低级快乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

I take it that we all agree that when we attempt to run the Cartesian argument in terms of the Morning Star and the Evening Star, it fails. But it's harder to say what went wrong?

我想大家都同意,当我们试图把卡氏论证,用到晨星和昏星的例子上来时,它行不通了,但是很难说我们哪里错了

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And so, to use the words with which Milton would begin Paradise Lost, " a theodicy is an attempt "to justify the ways of God to men."

因此，用弥尔顿在《失乐园》开头的话说，斯奥迪斯就是试图“证明上帝待人之法“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选