So Augustus actually reconstituted the Senate, and it was just that, a Senate reconstituted by the emperor.

奥古斯都早已重组元老院，由帝王重组的元老院。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

He and his family, the emperor's family, - was, in a sense, the patron for the whole people of the Roman Empire-- - at least for all the Romans-- the paterfamilias of the entire empire.

他及其家庭，帝王的家庭，某种意义上说，就是整个罗马帝国的庇护者-,至少是所有罗马人的-,他成了整个帝国的家长。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Strong enough to interfere with the ambitions of emperors and kings, it never was able to impose its own domination, though some of the Popes surely tried.

也无法与君主帝王的,雄心壮志相抗衡,宗教是无法统治一个国家的,一些教皇的努力也以失败告终

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Some scholars refer to Deuteronomy as a kind of counter treaty, if you will, right? A subversive document that's trying to shift the people's loyalty from the Assyrian overlord to God, the true sovereign, and it's part of a national movement.

有些学者把申命记看做是一份对应的条约，如果你会这样的话，是吗？一份颠覆性的条约，试图将人们的忠诚,从亚述帝王那里引向上帝，真正的统治者，并且这是一次全国性行动的一部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

CEO It's like the royal "we." It's more like the imperial CEO and they build up a huge amount of people around them and they very rarely get to the nub of the problem.

就像皇家的“我们“，更像帝王,他们在身旁埋下了很多的人脉,他们很少能够认识到问题的本质。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And this is the way the emperor would forever then try to present himself.

帝王永远都是这么表现自己的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Christianity began as a persecuted religion that ultimately captured the Roman empire only after centuries of hostility towards the Empire, towards Rome, towards the secular state in general.

基督教最初作为被迫害的宗教,最终征服了整个罗马帝国,而在此之前,它经过了数世纪,对帝王对罗马以及,对整个世俗世界的反抗

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Greek language, culture, and religions, different religions and the syncretism, - Greek education, the polis structure-- all of these things remained in the East throughout the Roman rule of the East, all the way up until the time you had a Christian emperor with Constantine, and later.

希腊语，文化，宗教，不同宗教，融合，希腊教育，希腊城市结构-,这些在罗马统治东方时,都保留了下来，直到出现了,信仰基督教的帝王君士坦丁一世及其他。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选