her brothers were eleven and nine: unusually young actors, we might think, to be engaged in such high-flying philosophical debates as these two characters find themselves in.

分别是11岁和9岁，不寻常的小演员，我们可能会想，他们来演这雄心壮志的哲学辩论,是怎么样的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

You would also engage in sports together, and you would develop a camaraderie because you were expected then to be the fighting force for your city, your city-state.

一起参加体育运动，培养友谊,因为他们将成为这座城市，这座城邦的，主要战斗力。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

They were little toys that-- they would be shaped like animals or something and you could roll them along the floor.

那些是小型的玩具-,它们可以被做成动物或者其它的形状,你可以拖着它们在地板上跑。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

All of Milton's expectations that England might actually be transformed, and they were glorious expectations, into something like a Puritan utopia or even a Puritan paradise -- all of that had been destroyed.

弥尔顿壮丽的期望，将英格兰转变成一个，清教徒乌托邦，甚至是清教徒天堂的期望,统统破灭了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It used to be thought before people were very careful- we know that they do every terrible thing in the world in the Peloponnesian War.

人们谨慎行事之前曾考虑过,我们知道他们在伯罗奔尼撒战争中,做尽了世上的恶事

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

That's--if this were a scientific study, I would be instructing you to do that so you wouldn't forget anything by the end of the day.

如果进行科学研究,我就会指导你们去做这个,最后你们就不会忘记任何东西

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

You can see that it would be problem here if the gene that you were trying to give to the cancer cells also went to normal cells-- that would be a problem.

这确实是个问题,如果我们想导入癌细胞的自杀基因,也能进入正常细胞,那问题就大了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

That's why we wish--maybe some of us believe, but at the very least the rest of us, many of us hoped--there were souls, so that death wouldn't have to be the end.

这就是为什么我们会希望，也许我们有人相信，但我们之中其他人，我们中的多数人希望有灵魂的存在，那样死亡就不是终结了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If I'm American and you're from another country, I will view myself--this is a very--kind of obvious finding-- my obligations to you will be seen as less than if you were another American.

如果我是美国人，你是外国人，显而易见，我会觉得-,我对你的道义会少于,你是一个美国人的情况。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If wealth were the purpose of politics Aristotle writes the Phoenicians you might say in the ancient world -the Phoenicians were the commercial people par excellence the Phoenicians would be the best regime.

后者是著名《富国论》的作者,亚里士多德写到,如果财富是政治的目的,则你可以说，腓尼基人,远古世界最优秀的商人,腓尼基人治理的是最佳政体。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Because I thought everyone was going to be around like the 45 range because 66 is two-thirds, or right around of 100, and they were going to go two-thirds less than that and I did one less than that one.

因为我想每个人都会选45左右的数,因为66约等于一百的2/3,而大家会选比那小的,我就选了更小的数

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

So Julius Caesar--if you were really going to be important in Rome, you had to serve as a general at some point.

所以恺撒。。。如果你要在罗马出人头地，就得参军成为将领。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

But generally,the documents that came to be accepted were the ones that people we call the "proto-orthodox."

但总的来说，被接受的书籍,都被人们称为“原始东正教“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And although you were a freedman, - which was lower in status than a free person-- - there were some privileges you couldn't have-- your children would be, if they were born after you'd been freed, would be free people, not freed.

虽然奴隶成为了自由人，自由人的社会地位低于自由民-,有一些权利无法享受-,自由人的孩子，如果是出生于奴隶被释放后的，则会成为自由民，而不是自由人。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

They said, no more new houses to be built, so everyone thought--in fact they were talking about World War III, they were really scared.

他们说,禁止新建住宅,因此当时人们都认为,要爆发第三次世界大战,人们都很害怕

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In portraying the deity, I would think, if I were to write an epic poem - I would feel that I would be expected to stay within the fairly narrow parameters of religious decorum.

要表现神性，我认为，要是我要写一首史诗的话,-我肯定会觉得不能越出,宗教教义狭窄的界限。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选