(Speech) She said there is joy in the possibilities that opened up at this very bridge, noting it was the result of a long struggle against oppression.

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The city of Amsterdam grows up not only as part of this victorious struggle against the Spanish armies.

阿姆斯特丹的成长不仅仅是,反抗西班牙军队胜利的一部分

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

They believed the world was made up of a struggle between human autonomy, on the one hand, and human dependency on the other, and you should never give up on that dependency.

他们相信这个世界是由两部分组成,一部分是人自身的自律,而另一部分则是人类与人之间的相互依赖,你永远不应该放弃那种依赖

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Trouble the Water; a novel about growing up in the South by Melvin Dixon, a great novel that gets little attention, and his lifelong struggle to understand just how Southern he was in New York.

再如梅尔文·迪克逊的《水的困扰》,是一本关于南方的成长经历的小说,一本伟大却不出名的小说,他终其一生都在试图理解,为何他在纽约那么像个南方人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选