Literature is many things, a many-splendored thing," you say to yourself, "and it simply cannot be confined or trapped within a definition of that kind."

文学可以是很多，很多奇妙的东西，它不会局限于,那种定义“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

One thing you cannot say about him is that he's culturally insensitive, arguably one of the most sensitive people alive.

但你不能说他在文化方面不敏感，他可以说是还在世的最敏感的人之一。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

You will say that man cannot hold property in man.

也许你会说一个人不能把另一个人当财产

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

If this theory you might say of sort of cataclysmic change is true we cannot rule out the possibility that a constitution like ours or even identical to ours existed at some point in the ancient past in the far distant past that Aristotle knew about.

你们可能认为，如果这个理论,即剧烈变革的理论为真,我们就不能排除,像美国宪法,或相同于美国之其它现存宪法,早在远古。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选