He said it offers a modern new way to share high quality videos with a large group of people interested in art.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

If you think about the American idea as an example of the modern way of thinking about these things, the notion is we can't do anything.

如果你以美国式理念作为,一种现代思维方式去,思考这些内容的话,就会觉得无法可施

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Well, that's not the way it is with the modern world and that's not the way it comes out of the enlightenment, the individual is the ultimate.

这和现代世界的观点不同,和启蒙时期的思想成就不同,他们认为个人利益至上

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"I'm impressed. They are getting there. They still have a long way to go,". Developer Tony Jape is building a new, modern office and apartment complex and betting that the country will continue to develop.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

.. I think that what's happening is these ideas-- Everything is evolving, so I'm actually presenting here our modern finance as the outgrowth of socialism, but that's not the usual way to present it.

我认为这些想法观念也正在-,一切都在进步，但我真正想表达的是现代金融,也可以被解读为社会主义的一个产物，这种解读并不常见。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"Today's modern car is in a way more sophisticated than a fighter jet in terms of the computers that are in it but we don't have any reassurance as to what standards went into designing the computer software that goes into those vehicles."

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

He seems, in this way, to anticipate what we might think of as the modern welfare state that public assistance be provided, and the poor, not simply depend on the private goodwill of the others.

如此看来,霍布斯已经预见到了,我们现代社会国家福利制度的出现，穷人不只依靠个人的善意施舍度日,更多的是求助于国家提供的福利保障。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So I went back to the great creator raising his plastic arm and suggested that, well, maybe after all there might be some good way of complicating the meaning of Akenside by suggesting that the modern, anachronistic meaning of "plastic" would be relevant to the sense of the poem.

所以我回想了一下,当这位伟大的创造家抬起他的塑料手臂，说，也许总有办法,能让Akenside的意思更复杂,有一个很好的例子就是,“plastic“一词古今意思的差别“,和诗歌的意境有关。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's not merely a negative thing the way I think modern ideas about law, as for instance, represented in the American Constitution are, which is to say, its function is to prevent wrong doing, to punish wrong doing.

我的理解是,这里的法律,不仅仅指当今的法律条款,比如美国宪法所代表的那些内容,也就是,行使防范错误行为,以及惩罚错误行为的职能

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Think of that, that where the law is silent, we have the freedom to do or not to do as we choose, very important to the way we think of liberty today in a modern and you might say liberal democracy.

仔细想想，在法律所认可的地方，我们可按自己的选择去做或是不做，这对身在现代自由民主时代的我们,思考何为自由至关重要。

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