Today I have the impossible task of finishing the parts of the Republic that I have assigned for the class.

今天我有个不可能的任务,完成《理想国》剩余的部份,依照我指定给同学的进度。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And I think the task of the novel is to fill that structure in.

我想这本书的任务,也就是将那种构架给填满。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And so it really, not the course but the idea for the course, was an evolution three years four years ago, really, when I was involved in something called the Civic Values Task Force, which was started by Princeton Project 55.

所以说，不是这个课程,而是这个课程的设想，是在三四年前形成的，当时我参加了,公民价值专责小组，由普林斯顿大学55工程发起。

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