The historical critical method, and the documentary hypothesis in particular, are not inherently biased, I want to make that point very strongly. They are simply analytical tools: look at the text and its features and draw some conclusions based on what you're finding.

这里我想要特别强调的是，历史的批判性研究方法,尤其是底本学说，本身是不带偏见的,它们只是分析工具，对文本及其特征进行评判,然后根据你的发现作出结论。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

In the famous battle of Marathon, which I will tell you about when we get there, one of its features is that because the Greeks were numerically badly inferior to the Persians, they had this problem of covering the line.

比如在著名的马拉松战役,迟些我们会讲到,马拉松战役中,希腊军队,在人数上远不敌波斯军队,这为布阵造成很大的困难

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

A pastoral, of course, features shepherds and shepherdesses as its most distinguishing characteristic.

田园诗理所当然是以描写牧羊生活,作为它最突出的特点。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But it's more limited in its feature set but again will build backup to those features.

由于其自身的特点而很受限制,但是可以对这些特征进行备份。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

All right. Last time we started asking ourselves about what are some of the other aspects of death that might contribute to its badness, or at least other features of death that are worth thinking about.

好了，上一次我们开始自问这样一个问题,死亡还有什么其他的方面,可能导致其坏处的原因，或者至少是其他值得思考的死亡的特征。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选