And in San Francisco, a full one-third of the population is of Asian descent.

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Contrast his images of joyous or demonic assent with the images of catastrophe, of descent, of collapse in Eliot, "London Bridge is falling down."

对比他关于喜悦或着迷的描写,这些都是和灾难，对衰退的描写，或者艾略特描写的崩塌“伦敦桥在倒塌“，相一致的“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Finally, Dante alludes to this image of the Virgilian underworld in The Inferno when he describes the descent of humanity, the evil seed of Adam, into the Christian hell.

最后，但丁又在中描述到人性的败坏,亚当在基督教的地狱中撒下的邪恶种子时，含沙射影了维吉尔关于地狱的描写。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The noble families of Greece,and we see it already in Homer, typically claim descent from some god or other and ordinary people do not have that ability.

希腊的贵族家族,我们在荷马身上已看到了,典型地声称贵族权力由神祇所授予,并表示普通人没有那种能力

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It is clearly modeled on Odysseus' descent to Hades in the Odyssey.

这很明显是模仿奥德修斯降入地狱,《奥德赛》书中的故事。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I want them to say that "there was somebody who lay bare, not just argument vision, The joy that he finds in being human, the joy he finds in sharing, the joy he finds in interacting, the common response, which is descent from black culture.

我想要听他们说：,“他是个揭露自己灵魂的人，而不是大谈道理“,作为人所得到的快乐，在分享和互动中所得到的快乐，从黑人文化中所衍生出来的“共鸣感”

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Then, in the last book of the Republic, Book X, there is, once again, a descent to the underworld, to the world of Hades.

接着，在《理想国》的最后一部，第，X，部，再度下降到阴间，地狱的世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选