Many people think these classical works are not as great as some of his musical plays for Broadway such as "On the Town,"

VOA: special.2009.08.02

Neuropsychologists love when motorcyclists drive without helmets because through their horrible accidents we gain great insights into how the brain works.

他们喜欢不带安全帽就能开摩托车的时代,因为通过他们严重的交通事故,我们能够了解大脑是如何进行活动的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And in that class, we study great works of western philosophy, like going back as far as Plato through Aristotle,

在这门课上，我们学习西方哲学的伟大作品，比如说通过亚里士多德讲到年代久远的柏拉图，

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Lowell imagined them as the hopeful engineers of great works.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

They were simply evocations, appreciative evocations, of great works of literature.

他只是对著作的再重现，一种让人快乐重现。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

They saw his stupid mistakes as works of great intelligence.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

We're told what books, what works of art are great. - Right.

别人教导我们什么书和艺术伟大，-对。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Their classroom discussions are often about great works of literature by authors who lived thousands of years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

In fact, the work is a kind of philosophical odyssey that both imitates Homer, but also anticipates other great odysseys of the human mind, works by those like Cervantes or Joyce.

事实上，这部作品多少像是哲学的探索过程,双双仿效荷马，但也为其它的人性探索过程,预做了准备，作品可参见塞万提斯及乔依斯的著作。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Yeah, yeah. So, basically in Classics, we read sort of great works in Greek and Latin and discuss them.

好，行。我主修古典文学，我们要阅读希腊语和拉丁语的名著然后讨论。

主修古典文学 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Rather the great works provide us so to speak with a repository of fundamental or permanent questions that political scientists still continue to rely on in their work.

而不是靠巨著来回答,这么来说吧，大量基本或永恒的问题,同时也是政治科学家,仍持续在其著作中所倚赖的根本。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选