So when I'm writing the poem, when the poem is writing itself through me, at its best, I'm reading it; it is reading me.

所以，我在写诗时，或者说，当诗在通过我创造自己时，我在读诗，诗也在读我。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Such was the South at its best," Said Cash, "And such at its best it remains today."

这是南方好的一面",卡什写道,"这些优点一直保留到了现在"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Individual freedom may be at best a desirable byproduct of the Aristotelian mixed regime but individual freedom is not its defining or principle goal.

个人自由充其量,仅是附加于,亚里士多德式混合政体的产物,而非其所要定义,或首要的目标。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选