The barriers to unity presented by European geography and very limited technology made it hard for a would-be conqueror to create a vast empire, eliminating competitors and imposing his will over vast areas.

由于欧洲独特的地理条件,和当时有限的科技水平,使未来的征伐者很难建立一个广袤的帝国,清除异己和使他的意志,传播到广袤领地的每一个角落

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There are so many entities in this passage that seem to be mysteriously conjoined in some kind of hermaphroditic unity.

这段里有很多看起来很多实体神秘地,结合在两性的一个结合体重。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So this course is actually going to run counter to that historical tendency to make unity out of diversity.

所以这一课程,是与历史趋同的趋势相悖的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Plato's excessive emphasis on unity would seem to destroy the natural diversity of human beings that make up a city.

柏拉图过度地强调和谐,似乎会摧毁,构成城市的自然人性差异。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It takes up his lifelong quest to reconcile extremities, and to achieve some kind of unity of being.

他一生都在极端之间妥协，为达到某种存在的结合。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

It's a way of becoming not just close to the real, but also part of some mystical unity.

这是一种不过于接近现实，保留着部分，神秘色彩的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Now by the same token, James Joyce other Modernists like James Joyce are also contributing to this idea of the independent unity of the work of art.

同样的，一些现代主义作家如,也对艺术作品独立的一致性,这一观点作出了贡献。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Gaiety for Yeats seems to represent some reconstitution of mind and body, some experience of their unity out beyond an experience of tragedy and grief.

愉悦对叶芝来说代表着,身体心灵的结合，他们的结合,带来的体验是悲剧痛苦不及的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

In some ways, everything we have to say today will concern the idea of unity.

基本上，我们今天所谈论的话题,都和文本的一直性有关。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Yeats seems to be insisting through Jane on the necessity of shattering experience to achieve unity of being, which Yeats imagines, again, as the union of opposites.

叶芝似乎通过珍妮坚持,认为经过破碎达到存在的统一,的必要性，所谓的统一，叶芝想象的还是相对立事物的统一。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He always zooms in on something, thinks about it for a while and then goes away and thinks about something else, leaving us to decide whether it has a genuine bearing on the entirety or on the literary wholeness or unity of Macbeth.

他常常是放大一些细节，思考一会儿，然后放弃了,又开始想别的，让读者自己思考这部分,是不是对麦克白,整体有影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In other words, a connotation is valuable and ought to be invoked even if it's philologically incorrect if it contributes to the unity, the complex building up of the unity, of the literary text.

也就是说,如果隐含意义是文本更具有一致性,它就是有价值,且值得探究的，即使从语言学角度说，它是不正确的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So what's going on is taking what is a unity, and pulling apart that unity to see the diversity of this early Christian movement and these documents.

所以我们要做的是把一个整体，拆分开，看看早期基督教运动的差异,及这些文本。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选