For me the absolutely shocking fact of this simile ] is that its primary purpose is merely to describe the number of angels who are prostrate on the burning lake of hell.

为了他们悲惨的境遇黯然神伤,对我来说，这个比喻令人震惊的事实,是它最初的目的只不过,是为了描述葬身于地狱火海的天使的数量之多。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It is not a political treatise, as those who merely judge books by their title think, but it is the finest, " most beautiful work on education ever written."

这不是一本政治论述，不像众人浅薄地,从其书名所下的判断，而是一本最优，有史以来最典雅的教育著作“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

At the end of last class, we started sketching an argument that comes from Descartes, the Cartesian argument, that says merely by the process of thinking, on the basis of thought alone, it tends to show that the mind-- We all agree that there are minds.

在上次课的最后,我们开始简述一个,来自笛卡尔的论证,或称为卡氏论证,这个论证说仅仅通过思考,仅仅在思想的基础上,它就能证明心灵,我们都承认有心灵

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Satan's saying that before the war in heaven, God's power just seemed like any other king's power, as if God sat on the throne of heaven merely because of those humanly constructed reasons of tradition, or of old repute or consent or custom.

撒旦是说在这场天上的大战之前，上帝的力量就和其他国王的力量一样，他坐在天堂的宝座上似乎仅仅是因为,人们自己营造的原因和传统，或者说是他过期的声望，他制定的法规以及约定俗成的规矩。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It is not merely Socrates who is on trial.

不单仅是苏格拉底受审。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选