First Lady Michelle Obama is the great-great-granddaughter of African slaves "I think as Americans and African-Americans, obviously,there is a special sense that on the one hand this place was a place of profound sadness.

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It's a profound sense of jeopardy-- physical, mortal jeopardy and I want to point to those "huge, wobbly, white bags, like the full udders of cows."

这是一种强烈的危险感-,来自肉体和精神,我想谈谈,“白色的大袋子摇晃着，如同母牛涨涨的乳房“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The sense of powerlessness, the most profound sense of powerlessness, suggested already by the first episode where his mother almost takes back the life she gave him, is rooted in the family.

无能为力之感，极度的无能为力之感，在他母亲几乎,毁了他时就有过，这在他的家庭中深深地扎根。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And what this means is that common sense tells us that somebody can be the same person even if their body undergoes radical and profound changes.

这也就是在说,普遍观点告诉我们,一个人,即使经历了身体上的巨变,也依旧是原先的那个人

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The utopianism of the book is, in many ways, the reverse side of the sense of profound disillusionment that he felt at the actual experience of the Athenian polis.

书中的乌托邦主义在很多方面，都是他,彻底醒悟的反说,也是他对,雅典城邦的实际体验。

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