Its rhetoric is so flat and unemotional, so overtly unrhetorical.

它的修辞如此平白流畅不带感情，仿佛不是修辞本身。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Presumably related to their own feelings, but it's not a biographical thing.

这大概是因为它和自己的感情紧密相连吧，但它并不是现实的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

So poor Lily is also an orphan, at least in the emotional sense, if not in actual reality. Her father, of course, had run off from her mother right after she had gotten pregnant, and then I suppose he came back.

可怜的莉莉也是个孤儿，至少从感情的角度上看是,如果你认为在现实情况不是，她的父亲，当然，在她母亲怀孕后,就开溜了，然后我猜测他又回来了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Far from having a sort of rational actor model of politics, he operates with an irrational actor model. He assumes that it is not reason but our passions that are the dominant force of human psychology, our desires, our aversions, our passions.

没有一个政治上理性的典范,他就着手塑造一个,不理性的典型，他假设,感情，而不是理性,是统领人类心理，欲望，厌恶和情绪的主要力量。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选