There's in those images, I think, a kind of utopian promise that the familiar, ordinary pleasures of rural life can be recaptured in a new society of plenty.

在这些图片中，我认为有一种乌托邦的希望,对乡村生活熟悉而平凡的快乐的希望,能在一个自足的新社会里重新得到快乐的希望。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

For the Greeks,on the other hand as I've said, political society was essential for living any kind of a good life.

对于希腊人,就像我说的另外一方面,对他们而言,政治社会,是人们获得幸福生活的关键

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So basically, the whole society was spending all of the time raising enough food just to support life and there was only 5% left over and that ended up being used in ways like this.

基本上,整个社会全部时间都被用于积累足量食物,这仅是为了维持生计,只剩下5%的时间,被用来建造金字塔,为法老服务

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

How do we get out of it? This is of course for much of the book. What do we do to get out of this state of nature to enter ? a condition of civil society and civilized life?

我们怎么摆脱它呢,所要讲的一个重要问题,我们要怎样才能摆脱自然状态,从而进入文明社会的状态，过上文明的生活呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Life in society what Adam and eve have to encounter now They now have to form villages,cities, start living among each other, and so on.

亚当与夏娃在社会生活中将要面临的是,建立村庄,建立城市,群居生活,诸如此类

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Last time I was talking to you about the world of Homer from the side of, you might say,the life of the mind rather than the practical matters of society by talking about values and ethics in the world of Homer.

上节课我谈到了,荷马时期,可以说,是从精神生活的角度,而不是社会实践的角度来论述的,我们讲了荷马时期的价值观和伦理观

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选