He'd been imprisoned for his intellectual daring and affirming the Copernican view that the earth orbited around the sun.

因他对哥白尼的地心说的大胆的,认可和支持而被软禁着。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Instead the Israelites are affirming their identity and their relationship with God by telling a story, a story whose moral can only be that God is reliable.

相反，犹太人是确定了他们的身份,和上帝的关系，通过讲述这个故事，故事的唯一教育意义便是，上帝是值得信赖的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Why should doubt about the veridical or truth-affirming possibilities of interpretation be so widespread in the twentieth century?

对确认为真的解读可能性的怀疑,为什么会在20世纪如此普遍？

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So being a swimmer gives you one sort of satisfaction It's competitive. It's affirming.

做一个游泳选手让你有一种成就感,这种运动展现竞争力，也给予肯定感。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He makes it clear that utility is the only standard of morality, in his view, so he's not challenging Bentham's premise. He's affirming it.

明确指出功利是道德的唯一标准，在他看来，他并没有质疑边沁的前提，而是肯定此观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

True godliness means imitation of God, the exercise of one's power In a manner that is godlike, good, life-affirming and so on.

真正的神性是效仿上帝，施展权力,用与上帝相仿的善良的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

What's new in theory is the element of skepticism that literary criticism by and large which is usually affirming a canon of some sort doesn't reflect.

这新内容就是怀疑主义元素,它是文学评论,所不具备的,文学评论总是坚持某种原则。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's a question, rather, of affirming what we call the human spirit.

而是一个我们称之为人类精神的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I'm going to say, "Ah, this is just what the text means," but at the same time, I'll be finding ways, without realizing it, of affirming certain kinds of meaning and discrediting certain other kinds of meaning -all the while saying, "Oh, it's just meaning. I'm not doing that."

我将会说，“啊哈，这就是作品的意思“,但同时，不必实现它，我会找到方法，来肯定一些意思,并怀疑另一些意思,同时说，“哦，这只是意思而已，我不会做那样做“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选