And then confronted with a new case, we found ourselves reexamining those principles, revising each in the light of the other.

当我们面临新的情况时，我们重新检验这些原则，根据新的情况修正这些理由或原则。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But when they apply for federal funds for social programs, we expect them to run their programs according to the Constitutional principle.

担当它们申请获得联邦基金施行其社会项目时，我们期望它们根据,宪法的原则推行那些项目。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The president that I work for, I always saw him trying to get first to the best policy based on his principles.

我辅佐的这位总统，我总会看见他努力根据自己的原则,规划出最好的政策。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The law of talion, which is essentially the principle that a person should be punished according to the injury they inflicted, it's been decried as a primitive, archaic reflex of the vengeance or vendetta principle.

复仇法，本质上讲述了人应该根据其所造成的伤害,接受处罚的原则，却遭到了谴责，人们认为它是,复仇或仇杀原则原始古老的反映。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And, to some extent, these have been shaped by an adherence to behaviorist principles.

从某种程度上说，这些制度就是根据行为主义原则而建立的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I just like it or I just don't like it according to principles that can be understood as arising from the faculty of judgment and not from the faculty of the understanding, which is appetitive, and the faculty of reason, which is moral.

我只是根据原则来判断喜欢还是不喜欢,这也可以被理解为从判断力出发,而不是从本能的理解力，或是道德上的理性出发。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And that would often actually the right answer to take, is to not just compromise among your advisers, but use your own principles to make a decision.

而且通常情况,他的观点是对的，并不是向智囊团的意见妥协，而是根据自己的原则做决定。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选