Apparently,the texts that were the most popular over a bigger geographical space tended to be the ones that got in.

很明显，在较大的地域上,最受欢迎的书籍通常都会被选上。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

In fact,if you wanted to argue against, say,the Letter of Hebrews being included,you could say, "But all the people in the East don't accept the Letter of Hebrews as part of their canon,so we shouldn't,either."

实际上，如果你想反对，希伯来书被选上，你可以说，“但是东方的人都不承认希伯来书,属于他们的正典，所以我们也不应承认“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Agamemnon has been chosen as the generalissimo and that is what gives him, temporarily, the title of wanax.

阿伽门农被选为临时大元帅,这就是某种意义上的王

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And so this one you didn't choose is then tainted and you turn and then when compared to a third one you favor that third one.

你第一次没选上的那粒就被打上污点了,当拿它和第三粒相比较时,你就会偏向于第三粒。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So if that was the reason they were included in the ancient world,it's not the reason they're still in now, because modern scholars don't believe the apostles actually wrote all of these texts in the New Testament.

如果那就是它们在古代被选上的原因,它不是现代人所认为的原因，因为现代学者认为,新约里的书并非全为使徒所写。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So it has two books that we don't include and excludes one that we do include.

所以有两本书没有被选上,并排除了选上的一部。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Why did they allow some books in and other books not in?

为什么有些书被选上而有些没被选上？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Solon was now a man of full years, he was a man greatly respected, and he turns out to be one of the seven sages that the ancient Greeks selected for the wisest men who ever were.

梭仑那时年岁已高并且备受崇敬,他最后被选为古希腊历史上,最具智慧的七个智者之一

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选