Genealogy is also important for membership in some historical or cultural organizations.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

He's willing to sacrifice historical or cultural exactitude of meaning.

他愿意牺牲意义在历史上和文化上的精确性。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And the poem goes on, and this is the tone of a poem. It's a poem of crisis, a poem of a kind of hollow speaker, someone who emerges as, more or less, buried alive. And this is supposed to reflect both personal crisis and a historical crisis.

然后这首诗继续娓娓道来，这就是诗歌的韵律,这是首关于危机的诗，关于一个有点言之无物的叙述者,最后活活烧死的诗，这恰好反映了,个人和历史的危机。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

From a historical and tourist point of view,Salem, or Old Salem, as it's called today, is the interesting and unusual part of town.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

It illustrates again this idea that how much of this ancient text is it important for you to know, on its own terms,in its historical context in the first century, or how is it important for you to know in the way it's been interpreted for the last 2000 years?

这又一次说明了,你对这部古代文本的了解，是对其本身100年间历史脉络的了解，还是在过去2000年间被解读的,哪个更为重要？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So Collins suggests that the poem in Exodus 15 is celebrating and preserving a historical memory of an escape from or a defeat of Pharaoh and that the drowning image is used metaphorically as it is elsewhere in Hebrew poetry to describe the Egyptians' humiliation and defeat.

所以Collins，指出在《出埃及记》15中的诗中,是对逃脱或者打败法老统治的这一历史性时刻的庆祝,溺水这一画面被赋予象征意义，就像犹太诗中,经常出现描写埃及人被打败被侮辱的场景一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选