And so--like the chainlet--it takes that stone-like distillation of life, turning rain to stone, turning life to the representation by your tormentor.

就像那条链子，它提取了,生命中如磐石般不朽的精华，将雨水变成石头，将生命变成,折磨你的人笔下的画像。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Canaanite religious ritual took place in small temples that housed cultic statues. There were stone pillars, perhaps symbols of the gods, or memorials to the dead.

迦南的宗教仪式在小庙中进行,里面有宗教神像，有石柱，它们也许代表上帝也可能是祭奠死者。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

All I needed to do was to chip away the excess stone, to get rid of the marble that shouldn't have been there.

我只要凿去多余的石头，只留下有用的。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

What values does he embody? Grayness grayness that suggests the color of a land and a culture, the color of stone, of peasant clothes.

体现了什么品质，灰色,灰色暗示了,一种土地和文化的颜色，石头的颜色，农民衣服的颜色。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So, what you see is children dead, children turned to stone, and this is the dark side of that fairy tale quality that we see in other parts of the novel that's been coming back in our lectures.

那么，你们读到的是死去的孩子，变成石头的孩子，着就是,童话般的小说的,其它部分的阴暗面,它正渐渐成为我们课程的主题。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It involves a stone, a piece of lapis lazuli that has a kind of a flaw in it, which is like a "water-course," and where one can imagine a pilgrim climbing toward increased enlightenment.

提到了一块石头,一块有瑕疵的青金石，就像河道“,我们可以想象,一个朝圣者慢慢靠近神启。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

instead of a stone dropping, nowadays there's a monkey that's falling down.

现在就不是丢石头了,而是有只猴子掉下来了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

We do have a victory hymn, a victory hymn that's inscribed on a stele that's a slab of stone--which was erected in the year 1204 BCE.

我们确实有胜利颂歌，刻在石碑上的胜利颂歌,那是一块石板，立于公元前1204年。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

That's about chipping away the excess stone.

那就是关于凿掉多余的石头。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

We have a lot of potential that over time with we fix stone of voices with being part of our culture that very often these limitations are put on top of us just like the excess stone.

但是渐渐地受到外部文化压力,像多余石料一样，把我们禁锢起来了。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选