There's in those images, I think, a kind of utopian promise that the familiar, ordinary pleasures of rural life can be recaptured in a new society of plenty.

在这些图片中，我认为有一种乌托邦的希望,对乡村生活熟悉而平凡的快乐的希望,能在一个自足的新社会里重新得到快乐的希望。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So Aristotle seems to be offering, in some respects, a kind of criticism of the kind of states with which we are most familiar.

因此从一些来说，亚里士多德似乎在提供一种对某种国家的评判,而那是我们最熟悉的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

People are already shaking their heads over me and any immediate God further professional use on my part of the word "God" except as a familiar, healthy American expletive will be taken or rather confirmed as the very worst kind of name dropping and a sure sign that I'm going straight to the dogs.

人们经常对我表示不同意，以及对,我一用那个字“,除非作为熟悉的健康的美式感叹词或咒骂词时,它们会被认为是最差的名字,也肯定是我向那些狗前进的标志。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选