The truth of this saying is written on every page in history.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Up to this point in literary history, only verse written for the theater had been written in unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, in blank verse.

文学发展到那时候，只有为戏剧写的诗,才会用不押韵的抑扬格五音步，即无韵诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Well, look at this footnote: And the history of words after a poem is written may contribute meanings which if relevant to the original pattern should not be ruled out by a scruple about intention.

那么我们就来看一下这条脚注：,在诗产生后，语言的意思也就跟着产生了,这种意思如果和原始的形式不同,就不该有对作者意图的顾虑。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"Our history was written with Taino blood. The conquest cost the lives of three million people.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

There's now an environmental history being written of the impact of the Market Revolution.

如今人们正在编纂一部环境的历史,内容是自然环境受到市场革命后的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The definitive history of the Cold War's end clearly has yet to be written.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Now if any of you are interested in exploring this issue of food and history there's an awful lot written about it a number of books that have been written about it that are quite good.

现在,如果谁,对探究食物与人类历史的关系有兴趣的话,有很多关于这方面的著作,很多这方面的好书

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

A newly released history of 20th Century Russia, written by a team of 45 scholars and edited by historian Andrei Zubov, includes a statement that much of the country's recent past is painfully difficult to study, which is why many refuse to do so.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

I want to play this one with the piano a little bit and I ask you the name of the composer of this piece-- it's a bit less well known but maybe not-- what it's called and when in the history of music it was written.

我会用钢琴演奏一小段,然后我会问它的作曲是谁,这曲子有点不太知名,也说不准,它叫什么,在音乐史上是什么时期创作出来的

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It is nevertheless a distinction that does exist, once you think about it, that deserves to exist and deserves to be remembered when we think about the variety of ways in which literary history can be written.

但是这区别既然存在，只要你思考它，它就有存在的理由,值得被记住，并被记录到,文学的无限发展可能的历史中。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选