While modern poetry in many of its forms strives to master reality, Auden reminds us, there on your handout, cautiously, that poetry makes nothing happen.

当现代诗歌以其各种方式极力想要操控现实时，奥登提醒我们--这在你们的讲稿上有，要小心诗歌会让人们一无所有。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

In approach number one, you simply lay out the various positions, pro and con, and the professor strives to remain neutral; sort of not tip his hand about what he holds.

方法一，你们简单的列出不同的观点，正面和反面，老师争取保持中立;,不表明他支持哪边。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Philia Civic friendship civic philia is in other words not without a strong element of what might be thought of as sibling rivalry in which each citizen strives to outdo the others for the sake of the civic good.

公民友情，或说公民,并非不具一般所认为的,手足竞争等强烈元素,即每位公民都努力,要胜过其它人，以谋求城市的利益。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选