What about Locke's account of private property and how it can arise before government and before law comes on the scene?

大家如何看待洛克关于私有财产,及其如何能早于任何政府法律而产生，这一观点？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Now we know that Milton was blind probably well before the time he began writing Paradise Lost, and therefore, of course, he was then unable to read.

现在我们知道弥尔顿很可能失明了,这早于他开始写《失乐园》的时间，因此，他不能通过眼睛阅读。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This is October 1922, comes out just before Broom is created.

它于1922年十月出版，刚好比《扫帚》早了一些。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

We remember that Lewis structures are an idea that are pre-quantum mechanics.

我们记得路易斯结构是一个,早于量子力学的概念。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

There is a return to these kinds of theoretical defences of absolutism that even preceded the growth of the absolute state as I've described it.

有一点需注意,对于绝对主义的理论辩护,甚至早于绝对主义国家的兴起,之前我已经描述过这个过程

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

But the action of the Republic takes place long before the defeat of Athens, before the rise of the Thirty and the execution of Athens .

但《理想国》撰写的时间,远早于雅典战败，及三十暴君掌权之前,也早于雅典被处决之前。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It is a right that attaches to individuals as human beings, even before government comes on the scene, even before parliaments and legislatures enact laws to define rights and to enforce them.

这种权利依附于个体而存在，甚至早于任何政府的建立，甚至早在任何议会和立法机关,制定法律定义权利并强制实施前，就已存在。

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If this theory you might say of sort of cataclysmic change is true we cannot rule out the possibility that a constitution like ours or even identical to ours existed at some point in the ancient past in the far distant past that Aristotle knew about.

你们可能认为，如果这个理论,即剧烈变革的理论为真,我们就不能排除,像美国宪法,或相同于美国之其它现存宪法,早在远古。

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