The Power Writers' motto is: "If you don't learn how to write your own life story, someone else will write it for you."

VOA: special.2009.04.27

So Klawans argues, and I quote, that "sacrifice involves in part the controlled exercise of complete power over an animal's life and death."

因此克洛文认为，“献祭在某种程度上是一种,掌握动物生死的权力象征“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

True godliness means imitation of God, the exercise of one's power In a manner that is godlike, good, life-affirming and so on.

真正的神性是效仿上帝，施展权力,用与上帝相仿的善良的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"Ted Kennedy's life's work was not to champion the causes of those with wealth or power or special connections.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

The sovereign holds total power over all the institutions of civilian and ecclesiastical life, holding sway over a kind of peaceable kingdom.

君主拥有绝对的权力,它高于所有的平民机构或是教会机构，支配着和平的国家。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"There has to be this constant connection." "People have to constantly be analyzing the power structure, how that works, how that impacts their everyday life.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

Power is a conceptual category that Milton brooded on and cultivated his entire writing life. From a very early age, Milton nursed the image of himself as a powerful poet.

米尔顿终其写作生涯都在思考，创建,力量这一概念范畴，还在很小的时候，米尔顿就开始把自己想做是一个强有力的诗人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

President Obama told the graduating class at Arizona State that what drives them through life should not be money, celebrity or power, but a higher calling.

VOA: standard.2009.05.14

I'm not free to take my own life or to sell my self into slavery or to give to somebody else arbitrary absolute power over me.

不能随意自杀,或出售自己成为奴隶,或给别人绝对权力，任意主宰我。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Well,De Gaulle has been dead for a very long time, and there has been progress, but what has not changed is still the power in Paris, in these ministries, to dictate the life of schools, of almost everything else.

戴高乐已经去世很久,在某些地方已经有所改进,但是巴黎的权利,政府各部门的权利仍未改变,他们规定校园生活,还有几乎其他任何事情

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

On the one hand, we have these unalienable rights to life, liberty, and property, which means that even we don't have the power to give them up, and that's what creates the limits on legitimate government.

一方面，我们有不可剥夺的生命，自由和财产权，这意味着即使我们自己也无权放弃，正是这些权利，造成了对合法政府的限制。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

It might be blood. Then whatever is believed to hold the power of this primordial life force, humans can tap into, and influence the activities of the metadivine realm.

可以是血液，无论哪个蕴含着,原始的力量，人类可以对此力量进行开发，影响超神领域的活动。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It had established Athens as a mighty and redoubtable naval power and it created an unprecedented level of artistic and cultural life even today known simply as Periclean Athens.

建立了雅典强大且令人敬畏的海军强权,而且催生了史无前例的,璀璨艺术与文化生活,甚至今日仍以伯里克利斯的雅典闻名。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选