The other way it shares an ambition of modernism is precisely in that effort to communicate experience, consciousness.

它与现代主义追求的另一个共同点,正体现在经验和意识的交流上。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

One social class does not owe anything to another and we should not feel guilty about pursuing financial interests.

一个社会阶层对另一个阶层并没有亏欠,而且我们也不必为追求经济利益,感到内疚

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The story of the first human pair in the Garden of Eden, which is in Genesis 2 and 3 has clear affinities with the Epic of Gilgamesh, that's a Babylonian and Assyrian epic in which a hero embarks on this exhausting search for immortality.

创世纪2至3，里，伊甸园亚当和夏娃的故事,与《吉尔迦美什史诗》有着密切的联系，《吉尔迦美什史诗》是巴比伦人和亚叙人的,一个英雄竭尽全力追求永生的故事。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And America has to recognise that we're one nation playing our role and trying with other nations to create a world that stands for universal values or that lives up to universal values.

我们必须意识到，我们只是一个国家,做好我们的本分,试着和其他国家一道,建造一个拥有共同价值观的世界,或追求共同价值观的世界。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Honor, in most societies, is thought to be not merely a personal quality, something like medieval chivalry but is above all group honor, the honor that surrounds the family, the extended clan, or the religious sect.

在许多社会中,荣誉不仅是追求骑士精神一样，对个人自豪感的追求,它更是一种集体的自豪感，比如一个大家族对自己的成就，或是一个教派对自己成就的荣誉感。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选