He wants you to think about reading on his terms.

他想让你以他的方式来思考。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

His terms are very much informed by a modernist sensibility of what literature is all about-- and I'm going to say more about what that is when I lecture on Lolita--but it's very much in contrast with that Ulysses ad. " Don't identify. It's not about you.

他的方式都是通过对文学的,现代主义式鉴赏来表达的,我在讲《洛丽塔》时会再详细说明,这和《尤利西斯》的广告有很大不同“,“无须认同，那与你无关，那是关于其他事情的”

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So I mentioned, however, that in terms of de Broglie's work. T his was Nobel Prize worthy, absolutely, but it was also his PhD thesis.

然而，我提到的是德布罗意的工作，这个工作是绝对是,配得上诺贝尔奖的，而且它也是德布罗意的博士论文。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Pity" and "terror," these become crucial terms, the terms that Aristotle, in his Poetics, used to define tragedy.

遗憾或恐惧“,这是很关键的词，亚里士多德在《诗学》中用它，定义悲剧。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And these are all spoken of in terms that are analogous to terms used to describe God as the shepherd of his flock of Israel and in control of life and death and so on.

这些说到的过程,和对于上帝的形容相类似，我们形容上帝为,他的“以色列族群的牧羊人“,控制着他们的生死。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

We're interested in hearing everybody on his or her own terms and letting those texts be.

我们感兴趣的是，听到每个人自己不同的主张,不论作品怎样。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I'm not the kind of person who makes it his business to try to explain away those things in physicalist, naturalistic, materialistic, scientific terms.

我不是那种,喜欢用物理主义,自然主义,唯物主义的科学角度,来解释东西的人

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Well, Wright himself described that difficulty of writing his autobiography, and these are the terms he used: I found that to tell the truth is the hardest thing on earth, harder than fighting in a war, harder than taking part in a revolution.

莱特自己描述了,自传写作的艰辛，他如是说：,“我发现说真话是世界上最难的事，比参加战争难，比参加革命难，如果尝试写自传。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选