Okay, it could be a bit of a problem if this text has become the basis for a system of religious faith or belief, and your assumptions about it are that its telling a truth that is singular in nature.

如果这本书成为一些宗教信念系统的基本,那就有问题了,你会臆断，这本书上的都是真确的，都是非凡的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

This is a meditation on both the joy and the loss of literary substitution for the real or for the truth, the substitution of abstract pattern for something like comprehensible meaning.

对为了现实或是真理,和有着某些可理解含义的抽象模式，的文学替代的思考,在这里她有些被这宝石般的线索吸引住了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Is this really tolerance ? or is it rather a form of moral decay that has simply decided to abandon the search for truth ? and standards of judgment?

这真的是容忍吗,还只是另一种形式的道德沦丧,只不过是决定,放弃找寻真理,和判断的标准？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选