They wanted the book to be a hopeful call to action.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

The Letter to the Hebrews,one letter of John, he rejects the Shepherd of Hermas,which is a book that we include in a groupings of writing we call the Apostolic Fathers.

希伯来书，它是约翰的一封书信，他摈弃了黑马牧人书,我们把它列入了使徒教父文集里。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Is it a book about the power of poetry and myth, what we would call the whole domain of culture to shape souls and to shape our societies?

这是本关于诗学与神话力量的书吗，即我们所谓形塑灵魂的文化整体范畴,同时亦形塑了我们的社会？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"In my book I call this the empathy bell curve. And part of what I'm exploring in the book is what determines where an individual scores on this empathy bell curve.

VOA: special.2011.08.10

Because alongside the idealized portrayal of the Israelite conquest in the first half of the book of Joshua, alongside the call for the destruction of all Canaanites, we find interesting tales of alliances and incorporation of various Canaanite groups.

因为随着对以色列征服的理想化描述,在《约书亚书》的第一部分，随着摧毁所有迦南人的呼声，我们发现了关于同盟趣事,以及迦南各个群体的合并。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Some scholars have pointed out that in Book II of the Iliad in the section that we call, "The Catalog of Ships," The poet lays out just exactly how many warships came to Troy fromGreece, and just exactly how many came from each town.

有学者指出在《伊利亚特》第二卷,《船舶名录》这一章节中,诗人准确地列出了从特洛伊出发到希腊的,战舰的数量,而每个城镇又各有多少

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Is it a book about what we today might call moral psychology ? and the right ordering of the human soul, which is a prominent theme addressed in this work?

或是一本,我们在今日所谓道德心理学,及人类灵魂之正义规范的书，因这些重要的主题正是本作品所大量陈述？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选