I don't know how well you can make it out but there's a little broom guy there with glasses, playing air guitar with his broom, and I guess this is meant to capture the spirit of the contributors.

我不知道你们能理解到什么程度,但是在那儿有一个戴着眼镜的男孩，用他的扫帚在弹着吉他，我猜这个的寓意是指要抓住那些发起人的精神内涵。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

One of the things he does, and I guess this is one of the things to be put in neon from this lecture, is he opens up Russia, which had no secular influences at all, to western ideas.

他的成就之一,我想这也是今天讲座的重点之一,就是他将西方思想引入俄国,在此之前 俄国没有受到任何外界世俗的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

I guess this is what Hobbes meant by "Nasty, short, and brutish," Or whatever the fourth was. I don't remember, but what life was in the Thirty years' War, that was the way it was.

我猜这就是霍布斯所谓的,"污秽不堪,朝不保夕,野蛮不化",第四个我记不得了,三十年战争时期的生活就是如此

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选