The debt of gratitude owed to these young men and women and to their predecessors is indeed profound."

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Obviously, he drew upon all sorts of sources and predecessors but psychoanalysis is identified as Freud's creation.

显然，他利用了各种资源,还总结了前人的成果,但精神分析依然被认为,是由弗洛伊德提出的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Machiavelli's state itself has universalist ambitions, in many ways, much like its Christian and Roman predecessors.

马奇亚维利的国家本身,也有普遍性的野心，从很多层面看来,很像其基督与罗马帝国的前辈。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Mr.Obama stood between his two predecessors Saturday and said they have answered his call to coordinate efforts to involve more Americans in helping Haiti recover and rebuild.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

It's about a relationship to predecessors who are seen as too similar.

也是因为和前辈的关系,他们看太像了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"I think that people want their church leaders not just to say they are sorry for others, for their predecessors or other bishops or priests around the world, but to take responsibility for the entire Church."

VOA: standard.2010.03.28

And it's important to remember that Milton will - this is probably an invariable truth, but I'll qualify it nonetheless - that Milton will typically imitate his predecessors only with a difference.

重要的是我们要记住弥尔顿将,这应是无可否认的事实，但我还是要验证一下,弥尔顿通常将,模仿他的文学前辈而仅留一个不同之处。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"And I think that many Israelis are saying, 'Well wait a second, where is the friendly U.S.administration that Democratic and Republican administrations have been known to be?'" President Obama's supporters say he is trying to take a more "even-handed" approach to the Middle East conflict than his predecessors.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

But I would say the advice of your predecessors is very important.

但我觉得,学长学姐们的建议还是很重要的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

You might think of walking in here expecting Professor Hungerford on censorship and getting me instead. But this is a very important idea for Nabokov both as a way of treating predecessors and as a way of writing. And I want to show you that way of writing very early in the book on page 10 now. Let's take a look at that.

你们可能期待亨格福特教授走上讲台,取代我讲审查制度，但这对纳博科夫而言,是非常重要的对待前辈和写作的方法,接下来，我将向你们展示,他的写作风格，在这本书的很前面，第10页，我们一起看一下。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选