Indeed, arguably a modern military power, at least in the seventeenth and early eighteenth-century sense, and he injects European culture into Russia.

至少在十七世纪和十八世纪早期,它可以算是一个现代化的军事大国,同时 他将欧洲文化注入俄国

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And the reason I was was that I was interested in how the modern world came into being and it came into being I think in the late 16th century in some sense.

这是因为我对,现代世界的形成很感兴趣，而我认为,从某种意义上它是在十七世纪末期形成的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He goes in a sense in an anti-modern direction, maybe even in some sense in a reactionary direction, at least in relation to other poets' ideas of progress and innovation.

他某种意义上走入了反现代化的方向，甚至某种意义上走入了反动的方向，但至少和其他诗人关于,进步和创新的想法有关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

But Milton portrays himself as a laborer here, a poet who by labor and intense study actually has to work to produce the great poem. Milton's divine vocation, his calling, seems in this light to be something like a vocation in the modern sense: it's a job that exacts work or labor.

但弥尔顿把他自己描绘成一个工人,一个只能通过努力学习来创作出,伟大诗歌的诗人，弥尔顿的神圣的使命，他的天职，就此而论就像现代意义上的职业了：,一份要求工作和劳动的职业。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

These are, in a sense, complementary images of the modern in America.

某种意义上来说，这是互补的对于现代美国的印象。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选