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VOA: special.2011.06.14

It's in that context that most of the observations we encounter in Russian formalism need to be understood.

我们要从形式角度去理解,俄国的形式主义者。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Is the mind to be understood in terms of this immaterial object, the soul? So are there two kinds of things?

难道心灵必须得被理解为,一种非物质客体,也就是灵魂吗,这两种东西是一样的吗

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The word had to be easily understood by all pilots and airport workers.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

The literary creator starts to seem a lot more like the divine creator, that is to say, and in a certain sense could be understood as a placeholder for the divine creator.

这些作者越来越被神化了，换句话说，在一定意义上,就被理解为神圣造物主的预留的位置。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That needs to be understood. But this time, we need to put the story of emancipation at the center of this narrative, because what really transformed the United States, were not those battles.

VOA: special.2011.04.09

They may have understood this to be the work of Yahweh, a god known probably from southern regions.

他们也许认为这是耶和华所为，他是南方宗教中的神灵。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

President Obama is said to have stated that, while the past must be understood, he is not there to argue history - and that it is time to "move on" to confront today's challenges.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

Art" here is not to be understood also as the antithesis of science, as when we speak of the arts and the sciences.

艺术“在这里不能被理解为,科学的对立面，而艺术和科学经常被我们对立而谈。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

There is somebody in that world called a basileus, who is a single individual who is understood to be superior in some way to everybody else.

那里有一种叫做巴赛勒斯的人,他被认为是一个天资比,其他人更好的人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So, practitioners who understood what we would know to be chemistry were highly valued in that society. And then, you may expand it to other chemical processes, dyeing of cloth, glassmaking, and metals extraction.

所以，理解我们所知为化学的,先行者们，在那个社会是,非常宝贵的，当时，你可能将其扩展到另一个化学过程，如布料的染色，玻璃的制造，还有金属提取。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So we're going to talk about thinking about the body as a system, as a system that can be understood the same way a motor could be understood or a computer that could be understood.

我们会讲到如何将身体看作系统进行研究,这个系统能够以研究,引擎或计算机的方法进行研究

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

In the meantime, Trotsky's book is a shot fired across the bow of those forms of "aestheticism"--quote, unquote -which can be understood as self-involved, self-preoccupied, and indifferent to history and class struggle.

同时，托洛斯基的攻击唯美主义,他这样评价，它,唯美主义可以被理解为一种纯粹的自我欣赏，漠视历史和阶级斗争。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's to be understood that we have to think of them together.

我们只有把它们放在一起才能理解。

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But how did Plato intend this dialogue to be understood? Note that Socrates never defends himself by reference to the doctrine of unlimited free speech.

但柏拉图到底想要这场辩证,如何被理解呢？请注意,苏格拉底的自辩从未援引,无限自由言论学说。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I just like it or I just don't like it according to principles that can be understood as arising from the faculty of judgment and not from the faculty of the understanding, which is appetitive, and the faculty of reason, which is moral.

我只是根据原则来判断喜欢还是不喜欢,这也可以被理解为从判断力出发,而不是从本能的理解力，或是道德上的理性出发。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It is an aspect of a text, the way in which it does communicate in other words, which has to be understood as existing in a dynamic, functional relationship with those aspects of the text in which literariness is dominant.

它是文本的一部分，它有生动的，交际功能，但是从文学根本上来说,但诗化语言支配着它。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Sanctuaries in the ancient world were understood to be the dwelling place of the deity.

在古时候，圣所被认为是,神的住所。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

You get the idea that everything arises from the extraordinary mental acuity or spiritual insight of an author and that what needs to be understood about literature is the genius of its production.

你发现一切,都源自这些作者的敏锐头脑和深刻见解,关于文学，你需要理解的,是这些天才的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

These are some of the implications of no longer being satisfied with the way in which a sign can be understood as a concept to which we attach belatedly a signification, a signifier.

有一些意指已不满足于,符号被理解为概念的方式了,我们就再赋予它们一个含义，一个能指。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Whereas most utterances purport to be saying something true about the actual state of things in the world, literary utterance is under no such obligation, the argument goes, and ought properly to be understood as fiction making it up as opposed to referring.

大多数言辞都是对事物的真实状况的,真实反映，而这种观点认为，文学没有这个义务，应该把文学理解为小说,它是虚构而不是实指。

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