Even more dangerously, from the standpoint of anybody who likes poetry, he talks instead of "statement," meaning science, and "pseudo-statement," meaning poetry.

更危险的是，在任何一个热爱诗歌的人看来，他转用“陈述“指代科学，用“伪陈述“指代诗歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That is a very strong statement about the priority of community and it's very different from the values that we saw in the Iliad and the Odyssey.

这是一种关于集体优先,的有力观点,这种价值观和,《伊利亚特》及《奥赛德》中的相去甚远

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

This seems to be a statement of his alienation or disaffection from the concerns of his fellow Athenians. I know nothing about what you do or what you care about.

这似乎是他对雅典同胞,所关心之事务疏离,或不满的表述,我不知道你做啥。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now, people--some people make an enormous jump from that and wrongly suggest that what the Greeks basically did was-- well, if you want to take the most extreme statement of it, stole their civilization from the other folks.

现在有些人,跳脱了这个定义,错误地认为,希腊人仅仅是,如果选取其中最极端的陈述,从他人那里窃取了文明

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Consider one thinker, and I will, I'm going to read you a short passage and I'm going to come back to this again later in the semester, from Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, chapter 31 of Leviathan, where Hobbes gives us a very personal statement about his intention in writing this book.

细想以下这一位思想家，我将朗读一小段文章,然后在学期后段,再回到这个主题来，这是取自贺伯斯的《利维坦》,第，31，章，贺伯斯提供了十分贴切的陈述,关于他撰写本书的动机。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选