And he has a theory about early life and perfectly appropriate as far as one can tell of what pre-human form he studied.

他有一个有关早期生命的理论,一般人都会觉得很正常,他研究人类之前的生命形式没有什么不合适。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It's a supposition that whatever the object of theory might be, - theory itself must-- owing to whatever intellectual constraints one can imagine-- be of such and such a form.

不管理论是关于什么事物的，它自己都只能-,由于人们思想的局限性-,以猜想的形式存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The world is constantly rolling-- this is a Platonic expression-- rolling between one form and the other.

这个世界就这样不断的左右摇摆,这是种柏拉图式的表达,型相间的来回摇摆

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I think the genius of this parable hinges on the fact that the servant who was only given one talent seems to be acting so perfectly reasonably - with a laudable form of caution and hesitation, you could actually say.

我认为这则寓言的特别之处在于,那个只拿到一个金币的仆人,的行为是很合理的,-可以说是令人称赞的小心和犹豫。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

When I was a boy there was one form and one form only and it was cartoon-- it was on Saturday morning cartoons and there was advertisements for foods on that and it was mainly for sugared cereals.

在我小时候有且只有一种形式,那就是动画,在周六早上的动画中,有关于食品的广告,主要是加糖麦片的广告

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In all of these cases, you're tempted to say, "Well, gee. One of those must be form and the other must be content -in particular, obviously "plot" and "story" where "plot" is the constructedness of the text and the "story" is what the text is about.

在所有这些情况中，他们都企图解释，这些一个是形式,一个是内容,具体来说，很明显在情节和故事的关系上“,情节是构建方式,而故事是内容。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选