In other words, the sacrificial cult was primarily a vehicle for worshipers' expression of a wide range of emotions: joy over the birth of a child, thankfulness for a good harvest and so on.

换句话说，献祭仪式从根本上来说,是表达崇拜者各种各样情感的一个途径：,新生儿带来的喜悦，对好收成的感谢，等等等等。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

There's this whole sense that the thing is precarious and you'd better kind of mind your Ps and Qs, or whatever the expression is, and be a good person or this whole thing could kind of be literally flooded away.

从这个场景中可以看出堤坝相当不稳定,你最好想想干过什么缺德事儿,或者捅过什么篓子之类的,总之得做个好人,否则,这整个城市就可能真会被大水冲走

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Good, so this is our key expression and I'm going to use this expression; I'm going to solve it for q1.

好了,这是个关键表达式,我们一会还要用到它的,我们用它来解出q1

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选