My critical powers are just sufficient to determine this, and I am gratified to be able to say it.

我的评论能力可以确认这一点，而且我很高兴我能这么说。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Yes, sure. Most of this opposition comes from people who are critical of places where I depart from the traditional ethic of the thing to do for human life.

当然可以，大多数的反对观点,都来自于这样的人，他们批评说，我的立场偏离了,关于如何对待人类的生命的传统伦理。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

These prophets delivered their oracles at critical junctures in Israel's history, in the nation's history, so their words are only going to make sense to us if we first understand the particular historical crises that they are addressing.

这些告知发表预言，总是在一些关键的转折期,在以色列历史中，国家的历史中，因此他们的话只对我们有意义,如果我们首先懂得某些特别的历史性危机,先知们所提到的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

There are no less than twenty pages devoted to the critical debate on these two lines: what the hell Saint Peter's two-handed engine is, what it looks like, what it does, what -- and everything about it.

集中描写这两行里的争论的,不少于20页：,圣彼得的双手引擎到底是什么，长什么样，用来干什么-和关于它的所有所有。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The historical critical method, and the documentary hypothesis in particular, are not inherently biased, I want to make that point very strongly. They are simply analytical tools: look at the text and its features and draw some conclusions based on what you're finding.

这里我想要特别强调的是，历史的批判性研究方法,尤其是底本学说，本身是不带偏见的,它们只是分析工具，对文本及其特征进行评判,然后根据你的发现作出结论。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Everyone agrees that the epic similes in Paradise Lost are different from the epic similes in any other epic poem, and everyone agrees - I'm just going to be presenting to you a sense of critical consensus here - everyone agrees that the similes are in some way absolutely essential to an understanding of this remarkable poem.

大家都同意中的诗意明喻,是和其他诗中的有所不同的，这是共识,-我将要向大家说明这一点,关于这点大家有决定性的共识,-大家都同意这些明喻某种程度上对于,理解这种异常卓越的诗是必然很重要的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选