Comes to mind, what happened, even foot-binding, that was something very common practice, basically erased within a generation.

突然想到了缠足这件事，这曾经是很常见的事情，而随着时代的变迁，它也已经淡出历史了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

They thrust together different texts, different languages, writing from different historical periods, all there, compressed in that remarkable mad song that concludes the poem.

它们将不同文字，不同语言，不同历史时代的书写，相互交织穿插，都呈现在那里，摘要叙述在一首举世闻名却又疯狂的结尾歌里。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He was a Victorian historian preoccupied with the dissolution of Western civilization.

他是一个维多利亚时代的历史学家,专门研究西方文明的瓦解。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

There isn't anything to be found is what Snodgrass says.

斯诺德格拉斯的意思是,历史上并未存在过这一时代

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Now, for a long time in American scholarship and in American classrooms one of the deep mythologies about this whole story of the era of the American Civil War in the Old South is that the Old South's plantation economy was dying out.

在很长的一段时间中,美国学术界和美国课堂,对于这个时代内战前的南方历史,存有一个疑点,就是当时南方的种植园经济正在逐渐衰退

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But this was a moment of particular and headlined notoriety in the history of academic thinking about literature, and a moment in which academic thinking about literature had a peculiar influence on topics much broader than literature.

但那是一个臭名昭著的时代,在文学学术思想的历史上，也是那个时候，文学学术思想,对比文学宽泛得多的话题所产生的特别影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Yeats's sense of modern history, of the crisis of his moment this is something we can describe and explore next time in "Easter 1916."

叶芝对现代历史，和他所生活时代的危机的感触,我们可从下节课要读的诗,1916年的复活节,还描述和探究“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选