He seems to have known something about the modern economic theory of society long before modern economics was even developed.

而且是公开的驳斥,他似乎已知现代社会的经济原理,且是在现代经济学开始发展之前。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So, Descartes lived in a fairly sophisticated time, and his time did have robots.

笛卡尔生活在一个,人类社会发展相对成熟的时代,在他生活的年代,已经出现了机器人

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

As early as 1826 an important pro-slavery writer named Edward Brown argued that "Slavery," he said, quote: "Had ever been the stepping ladder by which nations have passed from barbarism to civilization."

早在1826年,一位重要的亲奴主义作家,爱德华·布朗说过,"奴隶制,曾是帮助那些国家从野蛮时期,发展到文明社会的阶梯"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

I think we must remember that there were people creating and repeating, and working out, and changing a poetic tradition that started in the Mycenaean world and lasted for the rest of Greek history.

我想我们必须记住,这些进行创造和传承的人民,他们仔细刻画,发展成了诗歌的传统,从迈锡尼社会开始,一直延续到希腊历史的剩余部分

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But the tribal structure of Israelite society that would develop would be strengthened by the natural division of the land into these separate geographical areas that only reinforced the tribalization of society. And these local tribes probably did assimilate elements of the local population.

但是以色列社会的部落形态却会发展,被不断地加强,因为土地自然划分为分离的地理区域,这加强了社会的部落化，这些当地的部落,很可能同化了当地人口的特点。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The northern states by the Antebellum Period 1820s,1830s,1840s-- was beginning to sort of hurtle toward a different future than what that slave society was perhaps--no, not really slowly it too was hurtling toward a certain future.

北方在战前,也就是19世纪20至40年代,就急速开始朝着,和奴隶社会完全不同的方向发展,但是南方奴隶社会的发展得也不是很慢,它也在飞驰向一个确定的未来

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选