This lowly variety is not the kind of imagination I would like readers to use. What a crime!

我不希望读者们用到这种相对低端的想象方式,罪过啊！你们中有多少人为你们！

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Beyond this, his youth must be innocent of crime and chaste, his conduct irreproachable and his hands stainless.

通过这些，他的青春,将是贞洁的而不会充满犯罪，他的行为将是无可非难的，他的手将不会有任何污点。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This was a radical concept in its day, evidently. The punishment should fit the crime, no more and no less for all free persons--granted slaves are not included--regardless of social class. Equality before the law.

很显然，这是当时最根本的概念，惩罚应该,与罪行相符，不偏向任何自由人，不顾社会阶级,当然奴隶除外，法律面前人人平等。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It is this Socrates who is brought up on charges of corruption and impiety yet none of this quite answers the question of what is the nature of Socrates' crime.

这是被控腐化,与亵渎神明的苏格拉底,但这都未能完整地回答,苏格拉底所背罪名的本质究竟为何。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

What would you do if you had this power, the power of this magic ring, where you could commit any crime, indulge any vice, commit any outrage and be sure you could always get away with it?

你们如果也拥有这般神力，透过来自神奇戒指的魔力，将可以违犯任何罪行，放纵自己，干下任何不道德的行为或暴行,也不用担心,因为永远可以藉由神力遁逃？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选