This I think is so interesting because Bernard is preaching on the Song of Songs, to us moderns it just looks like a love poem.
我认为这个特有意思,因为伯纳德在传播《雅歌》,对我们现代人来说看起来就像是情诗。
We moderns have grudgingly accepted that the past is a record of shifts in climate, great migrations, the rise and fall of nations, yet we act as if our present is the final chapter.
我们现代人不愿承认过去的历史是一种变迁的记录,无论是气候、大迁徙、还是民族的兴衰,然而,我们的所作所为却好像现在是最后的篇章一样。
The Puritan family, also maligned by ignorant moderns, stands as a model.
清教徒的家庭是模范家庭,却也不幸被无知的现代人所曲解。
And here he distinguishes the liberty of, what he calls the liberty of the ancients, or what he doesn't exactly call but I'll call the liberty of the ancients and the liberty of the moderns.
他在这里为我们辨析了,现代自由与古典自由,可能他是叫作古典自由的吧,或者他根本没有给它一个具体的名字,不过我很愿意叫它古典自由。
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