That is to say, it is subservient to the natural world; its importance is that it refers to that world.

也就是说，这些学科都是自然世界的奴仆;,它们存在的价值就是去解释那个自然世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I think it stands to reason to assume that this figure of Galileo is of some importance to Milton and the workings of the poem.

我认为理所当然应当假设,伽利略的形象对弥尔顿和诗歌的作用而言,有着无以言表的重要性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Now here--here is the importance of assessing dietary behavior, and you guys are doing it on yourselves.

评估饮食行为的重点在于,你们要针对自己进行评估

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

One more extremely important announcement, it's on your syllabus, but I want to underline it even more than it is already underlined and boldfaced.I want to underline the importance of the section discussions in this course.

还有一个特别重要的通知，这在你们的课程纲要上但我想请你们在那下面划线,这比那些已经被划出或加粗的字还重要,我想请你们划下讨论课的重要性。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The mortality of the human being is a reality and it's of the greatest significance and importance, and of course men are not as strong and as powerful as the gods.

人终有一死,这是事实,这是最重要最显著的一点,当然人类也不像神那么强壮有力

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

If we had perfect financial markets-- and this is intuitive-- and I don't know how obvious this is, it's obvious to me, but it's an intuitive point of great importance-- nobody would suffer alone.

如果我们有完善的金融市场-,这就很直观-,我不知道这有多直观，至少我觉得显而易见，这是一个很重要的观点-,也就是，没有人会独自承担风险。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So when we hear any particular sound, again, we're hearing an amalgam of many sounds, and the importance of each of these partials in the aggregate of sound is what gives it its particular color.

那么,当我们听到某个声音的时候,其实听到的是很多声音的混合物,混合声音中的这些分音之所以重要,就是因为它们决定了自身特定的音色

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Couldn't it still be the case that as long as we take into account the importance of getting the right kinds of pleasures, then really pleasure is what it's all about and all that it's about? No, I think that's still not right.

它还说得通吗？,当我们考虑,正确的快乐的重要性时，那才是真正的快乐,而且仅为快乐？，不，我认为那还是不对。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I've read a lot of research in this area about the importance of quiet times whether it's in a class, in a lecture, whether it is at home, whether it is for a leader in the business, for relationship, for children starting from pre-schools.

关于安静时刻的重要性，无论是课堂里，讲座里，还是家中，无论是对公司领导，爱情关系，甚至学龄前儿童。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And what's interesting about it, and what indicates its importance to Buddy, is that Bessie gets on about him getting a phone ; where he's teaching in upstate New York; he's teaching writing as a visiting writer at a college in upstate New York. And Bessie, his mother, keeps saying, "Well, why won't you get a phone, Buddy?

有意思的是，这对巴蒂很重要，因为，贝西给他打了一个电话,在他在纽约北部教书的地方;,他教写作，作为访问学者在,纽约北部的一所大学里，贝西，他的妈妈，说，好了，为什么你不接电话？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The ostensible purpose of this sentence at this point, as I take it, in Milton's argument is to explain the importance of censorship; but surely this sentence has an entirely different effect on us as readers, a different effect than the syntax or the logic of this sentence may demand.

这句话表面上的目的，我认为，是在弥尔顿的论点里解释控制的重要性,但是这个句子却对读者产生了相反的作用，一个和这句话的句式逻辑的要求,不同的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选