Purification of the sanctuary was believed to be critical to the health and the well-being of the community.

圣所的净化被认为是,对整个群落的健康和幸福的一种批判。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And not be too critical or expect that you should be at a very high level when you're just beginning.

不要太挑剔，也不要奢望自己刚开始的时候就可以达到很高的水平。

学外语的时候 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

I'm convinced that it's the reader's job to apply the same degree of critical scrutiny, a kind of Galilean critical scrutiny, to the image of Providence that will be elaborated, as you will see, at extraordinary length in Book Three of Paradise Lost.

我相信，把同等程度的细致的挑剔的观察,一种伽利略式的吹毛求疵的观察精神，运用到对将要被详细说明的天命的形象上去，是读者该做的事，你们往后会发现，卷三里洋洋洒洒写了很多。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

If you remember from reading the Iliad and Odyssey, it is absolutely critical in the Greek religion that people be properly buried, because if they're not, then their shade goes on forever in misery and pain.

伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》中提到过,死者得到妥善安葬,在希腊信仰中是极其重要的,如若不然,死者的灵会永远在绝望和痛苦中飘荡

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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

I don't have any very good answers for that and yet it is one part of the traditional explanation is this, and it's a very important one and much debated, that at a critical time in the battle one technique would be one side would give one great big shove.

我并没有令人满意的答案,目前还有一种传统解释,很重要,同时也饱受争议,那就是在战局千钧一发的时刻,有一项技术就是一方给对方致命一推

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选