Pablo Picasso was a revolutionary modern artist who painted in many different styles during his long career.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

A great many modern figures never stopped to question slavery.

很多现代的人物从未停止过对奴隶制的质疑。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

While modern poetry in many of its forms strives to master reality, Auden reminds us, there on your handout, cautiously, that poetry makes nothing happen.

当现代诗歌以其各种方式极力想要操控现实时，奥登提醒我们--这在你们的讲稿上有，要小心诗歌会让人们一无所有。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The work and theories of Sigmund Freud continue to influence many areas of modern culture.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

And yet, in many ways, Socrates diagnoses very powerfully an important condition of modern democratic life with which we are all familiar.

但在很多方面，苏格拉底却也诊断了,非常有力且重要的,现在民主生活条件,那是我们都很熟悉的。

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In addition to his work with the Modern Jazz Quartet, John Lewis worked for many years as musical director of the Monterey Jazz Festival in California.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

But many, particularly two-- bureaucracies and powerful standing military forces-- are characteristics of modern states.

这些变革,尤其是官僚机构和强大的军队,这两方面是现代国家的特征

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Many of these animals had feathers, much like our modern birds.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

By now, in our time, however, the power of religion has faded, and for many, the basis of modern political and moral order has been demolished.

但是现在,宗教的影响力慢慢减弱了,对大部分人来说,现代政治,道德准则的基础已经被毁坏了

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Many of his structures look more ancient than modern.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

And, in that respect, Hobbes' sovereign has many of the features or characteristics that we come to associate with what we call modern executive power or executive authority.

从这个意义上讲,霍布斯的君主权力论,与我们现代所讲的,行政权和行政机关,有很多相似的特性。

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The United States is often a destination for many of these victims, where they are held in what many human rights activists consider modern day slavery.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

This helps us to explain, for instance, why in so many cultures the concept of saving face is so important, even if to most modern Americans it seems relatively trivial.

这就很容易解释，为什么很多文化里的面子问题,会变得那么重要，而对许多美国人来说,那都是小事一桩。

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"Today,the goal of modern apocalyptic terrorism is often to do as much disruption as possible and kill as many as possible in order to realy shake up the way in which societies operate and governments make decisions and make the pain so high that decisions are reassessed."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

He had many religious books, the kind of standard liturgical texts that were the stuff of religious enthusiasm, and more modern theological works in the Russian Orthodox tradition.

他有许多宗教书籍 大多是关于标准的礼拜仪式的,也就是一些宗教狂热的东西,还有一些俄国东正教传统中更现代的神学作品

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

In many ways Aristotle there offers, as does Plato, a certain kind of critique of the modern or even the ancient democratic theory of freedom, which is living as one likes.

亚里士多德在很多方面所提出的和柏拉图相似，都是一种对现代,或甚至古代自由民主理论的评判，也就是过一个人想过的生活。

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This, in many ways arguably, makes him the founding father or maybe we should say godfather of modern liberalism, the importance given to rights over duties, of the individual over in many ways the collective or common good.

正是这个稍带争议的观点,使他成了现代自由主义的奠基人,甚至可以说是创始人,因为个人权力优先于义务就意味着,个人利益将优先于集体利益。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So, the modern state, as we know it and still have it, in many ways grew out of the Hobbesian desire for security and the fear of death that can only be achieved at the expense of the desire for honor and glory.

所以我们知道的现代国家的建立,正如霍布斯所论,是人们对安全的渴求而导致的,只要一个人仍对荣誉有着强烈的渴求,他就永远不会对死亡产生恐惧。

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