III Yonder a maid and her wight Come whispering by: War's annals will fade into night Ere their story die.

那边一个女仆和她的同伴,走进来低语：,在故事结束前战争会没入夜色中。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Non-Romans and poor people may have seen the Pax Romana as more oppressive than a liberation, just like people saw the Pax Americana that way, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and before the beginning of the Iraq War.

非罗马人和穷人可能认为罗马和平,是压制，而不是自由，跟苏联解体后，伊拉克战争前,人们所谓的美式和平是一个道理。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Then from 1820 to 1860, the forty years before the war, an estimated roughly two million American slaves were sold to satisfy the need of slave labor in the great cotton kingdom of the growing Southwest.

之后从1820年到1860年,这战争前的四十年间,据粗略统计有大约两百万美国奴隶被出售,以满足西南部,这个日益增长的棉业帝国对奴隶劳工的需求

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Well, he has a wife whom he loves, Penelope, and he has a son whom he has barely seen because he had to go off to Troy almost 20 years ago to fight that battle and he hasn't been home since.

因为他有挚爱的妻子珀涅罗珀,以及一个由于二十年前,他前赴参加特洛伊战争,而几乎素未谋面的儿子

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选