Earlier this week, President Obama won a major political victory with congressional passage of his health care reform plan.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

Milton's infusing this passage with a powerful sense of -- I don't know, what can we call it? -- of gender nonconformity and cultural relativity.

弥尔顿在这段中注入了一个很强烈的思想，我也不清楚，我们怎么叫这种思想呢？这种性别的不一致和文化的相对性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

As with the passage on the falling of the leaves there's a kind of elegiac tone that works to undo, or at least to challenge, our theological certainty.

在描写落叶的段落里,有一种挽歌式的腔调，似乎要抹掉，至少是挑战神学上的确定性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Bobbi Wailes also fought for passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

It's reproduction of the virus and passage of that virus onto new cells which causes the problems with disease that we associate.

病毒一旦繁殖并进入新细胞,就会带来相关病症的危害

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The revelation triggered a wave of condemnation on the House floor, with Republicans j oining Democrats in calls to speed passage of new sanctions legislation.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

This is on page 1166, bottom of the right-hand column, and then over to 1167, a relatively long passage: Hence Freud is able to proffer, with a certain bravado, the formulation: "the aim of all life is death."

这在1166页，右边底部，然后跨到1167页，这段比较长：,所以弗洛伊德可以冒险提出一个公式：,“生命的目的是死亡“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Consider just the following passage from Leviathan with one of my favorite titles from the book, a chapter called "Of Darkness from Vain Philosophy " and Fabulous Traditions."

只需想想《利维坦》中如下的段落,它有一个我很喜欢的标题，这一章叫做,“空虚的哲学和神怪的传说,所造成的黑暗“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But I want to begin today with another passage, from the war years, and ask now from a Northern point of view, how do we get to Uriah Parmelee?

但是今天我要以另外一篇文章做开始,自开战那年,从北方角度来看,我们要如何理解乌利亚·帕米利

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Now, there are two things that she is left with, in the passage I just read: that sense of San Narciso being all of America, and, moreover, of it being constituted of "storm systems of group suffering and need."

在我刚刚读过的文章中，她留下了两件事：,一是圣弗朗西斯科：,就是整个美国的感觉，二是它作为,“人们承受而，又需要的风暴系统“的一部分“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Nothing is said of Moses' childhood, But we learn of his awareness of his Israelite identity, or his identification with the Hebrews, in the following passage: this is in Exodus 2:11-15: Some time after that, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his kinsfolk and witnessed their labors.

丝毫没有提到摩西的童年，但是我们却知道他意识到自己以色列人的身份，或者是他与希伯来人的身份关联，在接下来的《出埃及记》第2章11到15节中：,在那之后，摩西长大了，他出去看到了他的同族和他们的劳作。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So with that said, perhaps just to add to that, the fourth passage: "Beauty is the form of the purposiveness of an object so far as it is perceived in it without any representation of a purpose."

所以据上所述，啊，再加一点，现在看，第四篇文章：，“美是事物存在的目的,尽管这种合目的性并不是显而易见的，你可能要问了“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's an intensely erotic passage, this image of decorating King's tomb with flowers.

这一节非常感性，这用鲜花装饰金的坟墓的画面。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I don't have time here to discuss this section right now, but you've already had some encounter with the incredibly impressive level of ingenuity and grotesquery in this remarkable passage.

现在我们没有时间来讨论这一部分了，但你们已经领略到了这一段中,给人深刻印象的,独创性和其中的怪诞。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The laurels and the myrtles that he addresses here are, of course, the traditional plants classically associated with great poets; but for Milton in this passage, importantly these plants simply aren't ripe yet.

诗中提到的月桂树和常青藤，传统上常常与伟大诗人相联系;,但在弥尔顿的这首诗，重要的是这些植物尚未成熟。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Last time I began with Alexander H. Stephens's famous Cornerstone Speech in 1861, the famous passage by the Vice-President of the Confederacy declaring slavery the cornerstone of the Confederate Movement.

上次我说到亚历山大·H·史蒂芬,1861年著名的奠基石演讲,就是那个邦联副总统做的讲话,声称奴隶制是邦联运动的奠基石

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选