This is a story about the extremes of love, family,and medicine.
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It's a huge book which is all about this short story by Balzac, "Sarrasine," that he begins this essay by quoting.
这本大部头的书都是在讲巴尔扎克的短篇小说《沙拉辛》的,在文章开头他引用道。
This is a story about mechanical objects, -- some of which move-- -- remember those smiling houses in the background-- and some of which are stationary, but they're all mechanical objects.
这是一个关于会活动的,机械的故事-,还记得那些作为背景微笑的房子吗?,它们不会动但也都是机械的东西。
So you don't have to be a critic; you have to be strong; but you know what? You can be the average man, because this is a story about the average man.
所以你不需要当一个批评家;,但是你要坚强,知道么?,你可以是平常人,因为这是一个平常人的故事。
But the story captured the metaphor of what this class very much is about.
但是这个故事抓住了这门课程精髓。
That also encouraged me to really write more and to really think about what is the story, how are people coming to this and like when I show my friends this, how are they going to react.
这也鼓励我编写更多东西,并且真正思考这个故事是什么,思考人们怎么想它,比如我向我的朋友展示的时候,他们会怎么反应。
This is a course about justice and we begin with a story.
这是一门讨论公正的课程,我们以一则故事作为引子。
So this is a story about my morning.
我应该说是在我的某个清晨
Tanaka This is Tanaka who you just saw was the only one I found at the place when we were looking for someone for an interview. And she gave us this fascinating story of what is the life for a mother worrying about her daughter in this time of changes.
刚才你们看见的是,是我在采访时发现的唯一的人,她给我们讲述了一个,非常感人的故事,是关于母亲如何担心她女儿的。
Now, for a long time in American scholarship and in American classrooms one of the deep mythologies about this whole story of the era of the American Civil War in the Old South is that the Old South's plantation economy was dying out.
在很长的一段时间中,美国学术界和美国课堂,对于这个时代内战前的南方历史,存有一个疑点,就是当时南方的种植园经济正在逐渐衰退
One of the big arguments that is part of this story is when did this development of new way of fighting come about; rather quickly, over a matter of a few years, or did it stretch out over quite a long time.
人们对此最大的争议就在于,这种新型战斗方式是何时为军队所用的,是在短短几年内迅速发展起来的呢,还是在很长的一段时间逐步形成的呢
This is a story about cars.
这是一个关于车的故事。
They talk a lot, as Sarah said, they talk a lot about abstract questions, and this puts the meaning of the story in that abstract register. Is it a love story, or is it a religious story, a mystifying story?
他们谈论了很多,如萨拉所说,他们谈论了很多,很抽象的问题,这使得这个故事,变得抽象了,这是个爱情故事吗,有的或者是个宗教故事,还是个神秘故事呢?
I want to end this premise idea by talking a little bit about a person for whom, one of the chief purpose in life was to spread happiness-- Mahatma Gandhi. This is a story about him.
我想以介绍一位,一生致力于,传播快乐的人来结论这个前提-,圣雄甘地,这是关于他的一个故事。
This is Sal's story about Big Slim Hazard, a hobo that he once knew.
这是Sal和大长哈泽的故事,哈泽是他认识的一个流浪汉。
So there is this story about his Uncle Hoskins who takes his horse and cart with Richard in the back and drives it into the middle of the Mississippi River as a kind of practical joke on Richard.
有个故事是关于他的叔叔Hoskins的,他让理查坐在他的马车后,却连人带车掉到密西西比河里,这被作为了一个理查的真实笑话。
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