So, what I want to do now is, with that background in mind, I want to take this up and just open up the first few pages.

所以我想要做的事，记着这个背景，我想要打开几页小说。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Let me give a little bit background on positive psychology: how we came about and how this class came about.

下面介绍一下积极心理学的背景：,它是如何诞生的，这门课是如何诞生的。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

And perhaps the explanation has got to be the ubiquity of death is this kind of background, constant hum.

也许应该这么解释，死亡的无处不在,是一种背景的，持续的嗡嗡声。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And I have actually seen evidence over the years, mercifully, just a small amount of evidence, but there are, in a group like this, always a few students who come in with a really strong background in high school.

这几年我已经见到了实例，令人感激的是，只有小部分人，但在这，像这样的一个小组，总有一些来到我们这的学生,在高中打下了良好的基础。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But then there is this very explicit discussion of her Catholicism, a little further down: My background and my inclinations are both Catholic, and I think this is very apparent in the book.

然后这里有一段非常明确的,关于她的天主教义的讨论，在往下看一点：,“天主教是我的背景和取向，我想这在书中有很明显的体现。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

What I tried to do was to encourage the children not only to learn about a new culture, the Japanese Culture, from this Star Festival, but to also start thinking about what their own background was.

我所做的就是鼓励孩子们,不仅仅是通过七夕节来，了解全新的日本文化，而更要开始思考,自身的文化背景。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

This material is therefore crucial background to reading the Latter Prophets.

这些材料提供了重要的背景知识,以使我们阅读《后先知书》

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选