When you speak about Greeks you will be speaking about something more than merely the fact that they spoke a certain language.

当你谈论到希腊人的时候,你不仅仅说,他们只是讲一种特定语言的人群

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

When Rene Descartes argued that we are more than merely machines, his best piece of evidence for him was the human capacity for language.

勒奈·笛卡尔提出人类不只是机器的时候,他最有力的证据便是人类的语言能力

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

To know history, put on the god's knowledge with his power, would be to have access to history's meaning, and therefore to be more than merely subject to it, subject to its capricious and violating forces.

懂得历史，把上帝之智与力结合，才能接近历史的真实意义，否则只是受过历史的影响而已，被动无力地承受着历史的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It's possible that in merely reading and in merely amassing more and more knowledge, Milton's doing little more than the unprofitable servant in Matthew 25.

弥尔顿不可能,仅仅读书和积累知识，他所做的就像,马修25中的那个无益的仆人所做的一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But since we've got free will, we must be something more than a merely physical object.

但由于我们拥有自由意志,我们必定不只是纯粹的物理对象

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There has to be something more here than merely Johnson's massive blunder as a literary critic.

作为文学评论家，约翰逊是大错特错了,但他还是能给我们一些启发。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So there must be more to us than a merely physical thing."

所以我们绝不是一个纯粹物理对象

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

One who concerns himself with it more than the subject is an artist. But remember we are still talking merely of the raw material of poetry.

更多的考虑形式而不是内容的是,艺术家，但是记着我们还是谈论着,诗歌的原始形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选