It turns into something durable that will outlast them. So, the problem with art is in a sense that it is immortal.

那么，它让事物脱离它本身而,永存，那么，艺术的问题在于它的永恒。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Things like the platonic form are eternal, and their eternal changeless, indestructible because they are simple.

像柏拉图形式这样的东西是永恒的，而永恒的东西是不变的不可毁灭的,因为它们是简单的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Rather the great works provide us so to speak with a repository of fundamental or permanent questions that political scientists still continue to rely on in their work.

而不是靠巨著来回答,这么来说吧，大量基本或永恒的问题,同时也是政治科学家,仍持续在其著作中所倚赖的根本。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Between Slavophiles and westernizers, those are the people that look inside Russia to finding what they think to be eternal truth and those people who want to temper such looks with a look to the west.

俄国现在有斯拉夫派和西化派,一些人是希望基于俄国国情找到一种永恒真理,而另一些人则是希望,调和西方文化和俄国本土文化

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So much more important than historical verifiability is the conviction of the ancient Israelites who received and venerated these traditions, and developed them, and embellished them, that God had once acted on their behalf, rescuing them from bondage, binding them to himself in an eternal covenant.

无比史料证明更重要的是,古代以色列人坚定的信仰,他们接受并且崇敬那些传统，将它们发扬，美化它们，认为上帝曾为了他们而行动，将他们从奴役中解救，在永恒的契约中将他们与上帝联系在一起。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选