And he acknowledges here finally that the ideal of virginity is an ideal for which women are typically praised - and of course this goes without saying.

最后他也承认,关于妇女通常被赞美的童贞理想只是空想,当然这是不言而喻的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The New Criticism, incontestably and without rival, created an atmosphere in which it was okay to notice that things were a little more difficult than they'd been supposed to be.

新批评派，无可厚非，创造了一种很好的风气，大家似乎都能欣然接受,那些看起来还比较复杂的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I always want to--modern football helmets which are monstrous-- I'm so old we used to play with leather ones without a face mask.

现代美式橄榄球的面具就跟怪兽一样的,我老了,我们小时候打球都是皮质头盔而且没有面具的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The goal was to stop stuff like this, to try to create a legal framework in which states could resolve their kind of differences without kind of butchering each other.

他这么做的目的就是为了终结这种战乱的状况,并且试图创建一个法律体系,各国可以通过这个体系,而不是相互残杀来解决分歧

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The thought experiment, you recall, was one in which I imagine, I tell myself a story in which what I'm doing is I'm imagining my mind existing without my body.

回忆一下 那个思想实验,在其中我想象,我给自己讲了一个故事,在这个故事里,我只是想象我的心灵独立于我的身体存在

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

This monumental novel about 20 hours in the life of an average man can be read and appreciated like any other great novel once its framework and form are visualized, just as we can enjoy Hamlet without solving all the problems which agitate the critics and scholars."

这部不朽的小说是关于一个,平常人生命中的二十个小时,在它的框架和形式显现出来的时候,它就能像其他伟大小说一样被阅读和欣赏，就像我们欣赏《哈姆雷特》那样,不用解决那些激发批评家和学者讨论的问题“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Everyone knows from calculus that if you're trying to find a function about which you know only the derivative, you can always add a constant to one person's answer without changing anything.

学过微积分的人都知道,如果你想根据已知的导数,求出其原函数,你总是可以给某人的答案,随便加一个常数,且不影响结果

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

"The supreme power," By which Locke means the legislature, "Cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent, for the preservation of property being the end of government and that for which men enter into society, " it necessarily supposes and requires that people should have property."

最高权力“,这里洛克指的是立法机关，“未经本人同意，不能取去任何人财产的任何部分，因为，既然保护财产是政府的目的,也是人们加入社会的目的，这就必然假定而且要求人民应该享有财产权“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Philia Civic friendship civic philia is in other words not without a strong element of what might be thought of as sibling rivalry in which each citizen strives to outdo the others for the sake of the civic good.

公民友情，或说公民,并非不具一般所认为的,手足竞争等强烈元素,即每位公民都努力,要胜过其它人，以谋求城市的利益。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

We forget about the enormous trading vitality of Asia, even sea vitality and land vitality at the same time, but they are without any question by this point-- with the decline of the Spanish empire, which begins before this course-- the Dutch and the English.

我们先不考虑亚洲大量的贸易活动,包括同时的陆上和海上贸易,在十七世纪之前,随着西班牙帝国的衰退,欧洲最大的贸易实体,毫无疑问是荷兰和英国

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

in which we suddenly find ourselves, without meaning to and without being simply victims of any sort of cultural tyranny, standing in front of something, clasping our hands, tilting our head and feeling somehow or another different from the way we feel when we typically look at things.

我们会突然发现，自己毫无理由地,不受任何外在因素控制地，站在一样东西面前，拼命地鼓掌，歪着头品味，感觉到此时此刻的感受,与平时不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选