So you'll just have to survive these two very historical survey lectures, because it's material that you need to know.

所以你们得熬过两堂历史回顾课，因为你们需要了解这些内容。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Now these are going to be sort of dreary, boring, typical Martin lectures; dreary and boring historical surveys.

会比较沉闷，无聊，典型的Martin课程;,沉闷无聊的历史回顾。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

But yet when you look back from the nineteenth century, these factors do count in explaining how countries turn out to be the way they are.

不过当你从十九世纪开始回顾历史,这些因素的确能解释,国家是如何转变成现在这样的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

If you look back over it, there was no major or minor in western music up until about sixteenth century, and then people started writing these things called madrigals, that were tied to texts.

如果回顾下历史,大家会发现直到十六世纪,西方世界才出现大调和小调,那时人们开始写一种叫做牧歌的曲子,并配上歌词

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

He throws his high prophetic talents into the construction ; of the Saint Peter speech; and in 1645, historical circumstances being what they were, he was able to look back at this passage and actually claim that it had been a genuinely prophetic utterance.

他把自己预示的才能投入在,圣彼得的演说之中;,在164年，历史背景如此复杂，他能够重新回顾这段,并且做出一段真诚的预知性的论调。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And so the first three chapters take you through the history of chemistry starting with Democritus.

前三章将带你们回顾,化学的历史，由Democritus开始。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So, if you're looking back, say, from the end of the nineteenth century, it's not easy to see, but you can see these-- don't ever think that history runs on railroad tracks, and all you need is the timetable to show when modernization shows up.

所以,当你回顾历史,从十九世纪的末尾开始,虽然不太容易,但还是可以看出...,别以为历史是在固定轨道上行进的,别以为你只用拿时刻表,就知道新时代什么时候来临

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选