If I understand it correctly, science as science insofar as its belike scientific methodology, he needs to be defended.

如果我没有弄错的话，就论文所用的科学方法本身而言,就论文所用的科学方法本身而言，作者的立场应该受到维护。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And as you know,I've defended the physicalist conception, according to which all we are are just bodies capable of doing some fancy tricks, capable of P-functioning.

你们都知道，我认同的是物理主义者的设想，根据这个设想，我们都只是有着机能的肉体，我们能够实施人格功能。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Well, I actually think the Russian formalists can be defended against the charge that, unbeknownst to themselves, they fall back in to form-content distinctions by insisting on this variety of dualities.

但是我认为,这些形式主义者们在不自觉中，对于形式和内容的双重性,太过偏执。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

One of the best descriptions I've ever read of why slavery persisted, of why people defended it, and why people went to war for it, came before the war, in 1857, in a speech by the African-American woman, novelist, writer, poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

我曾读到的一段比较精彩的论述,关于为什么奴隶制度留存了下来,为什么人们为其辩护,为其而战,在1857年,战争前夕,在一个非裔美国女人的演讲中,她是小说家兼作家兼诗人,弗朗斯·伊莲·瓦特金·哈伯

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And when somebody else then attacks them, say, "Look, I think that what John was saying was a good point and here's how I think he should have defended his position," or what have you.

并且当其他人攻击他们时，你说听着我觉得约翰说的是个好点子,和这是我认为他应该怎样维护自己的立场“,或者你有什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选