Now, let's go back to a theory which has at least got the virtue of being very old, although hardly anybody believes it anymore.

现在,让我们再回去看一个理论,它的优势在于非常古老,虽然已经没人再相信它

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The state could strike back with unparalleled savagery against those people who got in the way, and that's what happened at the commune, in the Paris Commune.

但它竟也可以以空前野蛮的步伐倒退,就为了对抗那些阻碍了他们的人们,这就是在公社时期所发生的,巴黎公社时期

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

I'm going to treat this chapter as a sort of microcosm of the book, with respect to its craft. Let's look at how this opens: "The next afternoon when he got his car back, he drove it out into the country to see how well it worked on the open road.

我认为这一章是整本书的缩影，关于这个的写法，让我们一起看一下她是如何开头的：,第二天下午，当他拿回自己的车时，他把它开出去,开到农村里，想看看开着它在平坦的公路上时，它的性能如何。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选