and I think, "I'm lecturing."] "I mean, to put it crudely,'" he was saying, "the thing you could say he lacks is testicularity.

这就想，我在听教，我意思是，大概的说“,他是在说，你能说的是，他缺少证明自己。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

According to Eliot, the modern world lacks a center, a kind of set of collective beliefs and commitments that would enable communication between us.

根据艾略特所说，现代世界缺少一个中心，缺少一套共有的信仰和承诺,来促成人与人之间的交流。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It's looks like an ancient Greek novel, except it lacks the one thing every good Greek novel had,sex.

像是一部古希腊小说，只不过缺少了希腊小说普遍具有的“性“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

This is a world understood from a metonymic point of view as that which lacks organicity, and yet at the same time the whole point of the story is thematically metaphoric.

这个世界要从转喻的角度来理解,因为世界没有组织性，而且同时,整个故事的主旨就是比喻性的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

What that means ultimately is that evil lacks inevitability, Depending on your theory of human nature, I suppose, And it also means that Evil lies within the realm of human responsibility and control.

它最终要表达的是邪恶并非不可避免的，它是依你的人性论而定，我想，它还说明,邪恶就是人类的责任与控制力领域。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And this is precisely the opposite of the tyrant who Plato describes as a person of limitless desires who lacks the most rudimentary kind of governance, namely self-control.

而这正是对比于专制,即柏拉图形容中,拥有无限欲望的人,他们缺少最基本的管理，或说自控。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

.. So that makes me feel like I have to take the - You want to throw the book at him when he lacks remorse or a sense of having done anything wrong.

让我觉得我必须得-,你想严惩他是吗,因为他毫无悔意，或不认为自己做错事。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

The claim that Freud would make is that the woman's discovery that she lacks the penis plays a fundamental role later on determining her allegiances in life and in fact her own sexual preferences and interests.

弗洛伊德会认为,女性发现其身体缺少阴茎的这件事,会在决定其日后的生活忠诚度,及自身的性取向和性偏好中,起到重要的作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But of course the best regime lacks actuality.

但当然最优的政体并不实际。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选