Yeats spoke of the poem as a mad song, maybe not a kind of mad song we would--it's not what we would think of as a mad song, necessarily.

叶芝说这是首狂诗歌，也许不是我们所讲的狂诗歌,不一定是我们所认为的狂诗歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

That's true. People, when he died, not as much now, spoke of him has been terribly overweighed, because it was.

是的，他死后可不像今天这么受欢迎，人们都说他太肥了,因为这是事实。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

In Alsace almost everybody, as you will see later, spoke German dialect. But it didn't mean, if you asked somebody, "Are you French?"

在阿尔萨斯基本上每个人,你以后就知道,说一种德语方言,但也不是说,你要问别人,"你是法国人吗"

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

If I spoke my thoughts aloud they might be as angry and as wild.

若能直抒己见,那定当是狂怒野蛮之词。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I remember, for example, during the Vietnam War when Richard Nixon spoke about achieving peace with honor, and this was largely mocked as a kind of ludicrous idea.

我还记得越南战争时,尼克松说,要通过荣誉之战赢得和平,这滑稽的想法在当时可是被嘲笑的对象。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

That explains, in large part, why there was such a decline in population, why the Dark Ages were so dark, lots of poverty, lots of starvation, but also, as I suggested when I spoke of this earlier, also the freedom if you could make it, to learn and also to grow stronger.

这解释了,在绝大部分地区,为什么存在着这一类的人口消减,为什么黑暗时代如此黑暗,如此贫困,如此多的饥荒,但是同时,就如在我之前所提到的,同样可以,如果做得到的话,去学习以及使自身强大

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So this is a piece by Strauss where he's trying to resurrect the content, or mirror the content, of a philosophical novel by Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and it's about the unleashing of human capacity as it comes forth from the primordial earth here.

通过这个片段,施特劳斯正试着,重新诠释或者再现弗里德里希·尼采,的哲学著作查拉图斯特拉如是说的内容,这部作品是关于人类能力的释放,时间设定在人类从原始的世界出现之后

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选