They are subject to every conceivable kind of illusion, not to be trusted, and Socrates calls them liars.

他们都屈从于一切骗人的假象，不可被信赖，而苏格拉底则直截了当得说他们都是骗子。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So for Stanley Fish, Milton is always reminding us of our fallen-ness as readers and we're continually being encouraged to submit all of our uncertainties and all of our doubts to the power of faith.

对费什来说，弥尔顿总是在提醒我们自身作为读者的,堕落，我们也不断的被激励着,屈从于自身的不确定和,对信仰的力量的犹疑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But it doesn't mean that I need to resign to my thoughts about that feeling.

但不代表,我要屈从于对那种感受的想法。

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There are only subjects, people who are subject either to a god, or to the king, or to a representative of the god, or to a chieftain or whoever, but somebody in a sense owns them all, but nobody owns a citizen.

那时只有所谓的臣民,也就是那些屈从于上帝,国王,代表上帝以及部落首领或者类似的人,从某种意义上讲,人们可以完全拥有臣民,但却无人拥有公民

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Now, one of the reasons why people would-- it's unthinkable for someone like me or for probably most of you to imagine giving up your rights to a kind of absolute rule, though we seem to be in a situation like that, where that's happened quite a lot recently, even in this own country.

我或者你们中绝大多数的人,很难想象会有这么多人,宁愿放弃自己的权利,而屈从于一种绝对王权的原因,尽管在我们国家,最近类似的事情层出不穷,让我们仿佛能够感同身受

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And what I'm not talking about is resignation.

我说的不是屈从。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Satan finds it ignominious and shameful to lower himself to God, to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee and deify His power, but this kind of submission is shameful not because it's simply always shameful so to debase oneself.

撒旦认为对上帝放低身段，屈膝承欢，并认可他的力量实在是可耻的，但是这种屈从之所以是耻辱,并非是因为通常身段被贬低时会感到耻辱。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I'm not talking about resignation.

我说的不是屈从。

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