And I'm fascinated by the way that even at that elemental point, the religions come in, and like the Tower Babel confuse our speech.

我还为一件事物着迷,那就是宗教最初产生的时候，就像巴别塔扰乱了我们的语言。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It's a poem structured around the interaction between human beings and an entire pantheon of pagan deities.

是由人类相互影响,和所有无宗教信仰的万神殿来组织语言的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

From time to time, they wandered to Egypt or Mesopotamia often in search of pasture for their animals. And various details of their language, their customs, their laws, their religion, it's argued, seem to fit well into the period of the Late Bronze Age.

时而不时的，他们常在埃及或美索不达米亚游荡,为他们的牲口寻找牧场，大量关于他们的语言,他们的习俗，他们的律法，他们的宗教的细节，据说，都与融入了后青铜时期的特征。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Is he sincere in saying this, in making this point or his he somehow being ironical in his use of the religious tone ? or the religious register?

他说那些话时，是否诚恳地反应其论点,或他只是故做讽刺,才使用那些宗教论调,或是宗教语言？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

You may not like me," he says to the jury, " "but I am good for you and furthermore he claims in this what can only be described as sort of quasi-religious language that he has no choice in the matter.

他对陪审团说：，“你们可能不喜欢我，但我对你们有益,此外他的以下主张,仅能说是,某种类似宗教的语言,因为宣称在这件事情上他别无选择。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选