Well, "Home Burial" is a poem about the limits of work, the inability of the worker to bring a knowable world, a safe world, into being.

家冢“是他创作的极限之作，一个无能的工人让一个可知的世界，一个安全的世界存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The portrait of humans that emerges is that Humans are unimportant menials. They are the slaves of the gods, The gods have little reciprocal interest in or concern for them, And they create human beings to do the work of running the world.

接着便出现了对于人类的描绘,人类是卑微的仆人，他们是上帝的奴隶，上帝与他们没有共同利益，也并不关心他们，他们创造了人类是为了让他们接下治世的苦活。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But then also a little bit about your history, where you come from, some of your experiences which have helped you or informed your opinions on this very difficult issue that the entire world really is spending a lot of time trying to work on.

然后再谈谈你们各自的经历，你们从何而来，谈一些你们自己的经历,一些帮助过你们，或形成了你们,就这个复杂问题的观点,这个全世界都在投入大量时间试图解决的问题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Nabokov When we moved on to Nabokov, we had an author trying to imagine a work of art so autonomous from the world that it could be something like an autonomous form of life.

接下来我们说了，这是一位试图将文学作品想象为发自世界,以至于成为生活的一种自主形式的作家。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So that's Kant's famous distinction between the purposive, which is the organization of an aesthetic object, and the purposeful, which is the organization of any object insofar as it goes to work in the world or for us.

所以康德的著名理论，关于区分美学意义上的“合目的性“,和存在意义上,服务于我们的“目的性“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Well, Willett and others were doing studies for a number of years finding that Trans fats were having a very negative impact on health, but nobody paid much attention and they couldn't get much attention out there in the world for this kind of work.

威莱特等人多年的研究发现,反式脂肪对健康有着非常负面的影响,但没有人对此多加注意,研究者们也无法让大众注意到他们的研究

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Black Boy We started this course talking about Black Boy - and the way that a whole world of pressure-- pushed on the borders of that work and actually changed its very material form.

在开始这门课的时候我们先讨论了,说了这个充满政治压力的种族矛盾激化的世界-,并且已经改变了,它的实体范畴的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选