I'm going to do that at the end for this reason: that it has such a special place in the imagination of our culture.

但是现在我放到最后讲是因为：,它在提供我们文化的想象力方面地位如此特殊。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In the imagination of white Southerners there were a lot more Haitian rebels coming into the South than actually ever got here.

在南方白人的想象中,来到南方的海地反叛者,比实际上要多得多

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The effectual truth of the matter, not the imagination of it or the utopia of it.

事务的有力事实面，而非妄想或乌托邦。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

These two oscillate back and forth so the moment of deprivation is often then balanced by a moment of imagination.

来回交替丧失的时刻,经常和想像的时刻,互相平衡。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Frost is a kind of materialist, by which I mean he calls attention to the circumstances of imagination, its limits and conditions.

弗罗斯特是个唯物主义者，这样说的原因是他引起了人们对,想象的环境的注意，它的限制和条件。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

You have to find out what "pulls up" means in the same way that the adult reader of Pleasures of the Imagination has to find out what "plastic" means.

我们得找出“停下来“究竟是什么意思,正如读《想象的愉悦》的大人,需要找到“塑料“的意思。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

They can't imagine -they don't have the power of imagination to think what the next crisis will be like, so it catches them by surprise.

他们无法想象,他们根本想象不出,下次危机爆发是什么样,所以危机发生时他们措手不及

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It might not be the way they initially imagined, but one of the things that's great about being our society, being talented students have been the gifts of creative imagination as well as critical thinking.

或许这办法并不像他们原本所想的，但他们有一点是很出色的,无论是作为社会一分子还是有才能的学生,那就是批判思维和富有创新的想象。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But nonetheless, in the imagination, in the imaginaire, in the mental construction of these two countries, what we are not, that is Catholic, helps define their identity.

然而,在精神层面上,在精神体系的创立上,这两个国家的身份认同感,受到他们所否定的观念,即非天主教观念的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Another example. This captured my imagination-- when I was a kid, my dad told me about the invention of the chess game-- some of you know the story.

另一个例子，这个例子捕获了我的想象力-,在我小时，父亲给我讲象棋游戏的由来-,有些人可能知道这个故事。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

But since it is my intent to write something useful to whoever understands it, it has appeared to me more fitting to go directly to the effectual truth of things than to the imagination of it.

但因为我的目的是,书写一些对任何懂的人,有用的东西，所以最合适的方式是,直接书写事情的有力事实,而非妄想。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So, this is Nabokov's beautiful evocation of how writer and reader meet at the summit of this misty mountain of the imagination.

那么，这就是纳博科夫的美好呼唤，是关于读者和作者,如何在想像的巅峰相遇。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The language of Homer and of Virgil and of Pindar and of Ovid had become an inextricable part of his literary imagination and of his consciousness in general.

荷马，维吉尔，品达尔和奥维德的语言,成为弥尔顿文学想象还有文学觉悟中,无法摆脱的一部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, we have a kind of image there of the autonomous aesthetic pleasure, right, the pleasure of imagination that's taken alone, according to one's own thoughts rather than in some broader, more social form.

好了，这就是一种自发的美学享受的情景,对，这就是独自幻想的乐趣，它出自人自己的想法，而不是一些更宽广的概念，不是一些更社会化的形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But it's still a promise, and it's a promise of the powers of imagination and of poetry, and of poetry made out of play, of a child's play.

但始终还是一个希望，一个想象力和诗歌伟大力量的希望，这些诗是从玩中来的，从孩子们的玩耍中。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And Hartman made sense of the seemingly chaotic and confused movement of the narrator's imagination here.

哈特曼使叙述者在这里混乱无序的想象,变得能够理解，有所深意。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Their hair gets caught on the tangled thickets of the forest as they abandon -- as they are forced to abandon - the classical corners of Milton's literary imagination.

当被迫放弃弥尔顿文学想象部分的时候,她们的头发被缠绕在,杂乱的丛林深处。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Just as soon as we crowded our imagination already with the image of the spear the size of a Norwegian pine, which took a certain imaginative leap on our parts, we realize that Satan and his spear are immeasurably larger even than that.

我们已经对于,那棵已然吸引了我们大量注意力的挪威松木，及和之相比的长矛的大小浮想联翩了，我们意识到撒旦和他的长矛甚至比松木还要广大无边。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选