I could use any example but I'm going to use something which plainly does move around among various semiotic systems.

这个例子很平凡,随处可见。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

That is not to say that one shouldn't deal with death or sexuality in the ordinary course of life.

这并不是不能在平凡的生活中,涉及死亡或生殖。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

There's in those images, I think, a kind of utopian promise that the familiar, ordinary pleasures of rural life can be recaptured in a new society of plenty.

在这些图片中，我认为有一种乌托邦的希望,对乡村生活熟悉而平凡的快乐的希望,能在一个自足的新社会里重新得到快乐的希望。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I learned about their tawdry dreams, their simple hopes, their home lives their fear of feeling anything deeply, Their sex problems, their husbands.

我很清楚她们的思想，充斥着，俗不可耐的梦想，平凡的生活，她们的家庭,以及对高深东西的抵触，对待性的态度，她们的丈夫。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

All of us need some money, but some people really enjoy doing work that may not generate, if it's non-profit work like what we do.

我们都需要一些钱，但有些人,是真的乐于从事平凡的工作，比如说像我们做的这种不会发财的工作。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

What good is it -- you'll remember -- what good is it, Milton asks, ; "to tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade"; that's, of course, the vocation of poetry if that shepherd-poet is just going to be struck down in his prime as Edward King had been?

大家可以看到，弥尔顿在这里发出了疑问，“进行平凡微不足道的诗歌创作“，又有何益;,当然，就田园诗人而言，诗歌的天命,是否在于如同爱德华金一般的英年早逝？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

To tolerate his teaching would seem to trivialize it in some sense, to render it harmless.

若容忍了他的学说,则似乎让它看似平凡，视其为无害。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

We might say, ordinary, humdrum, everyday, physical objects are somewhat beautiful.

我们可以说普通的,平凡的,日常的,物理对象多少有点美

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The algebra is, of course, very trivial here.

这些数字本身当然是平凡无奇

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

They just got back from World War II, they didn't want another war, they wanted to live a normal life, they wanted to have kids, and then this terrible war was coming, they thought.

人们刚从二战战场返回祖国,无心恋战,只想享受平凡生活,养儿育女,结果又来了一场恶战

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So, if we just rearrange this equation, what we find is that z effective is equal to n squared times the ionization energy, IE all over the Rydberg constant and the square root of this.

我们可以发现有效的z等于n的平凡，乘以电离能除以里德堡常数,这些所有再开方，所以等于n乘以,除以RH整体的平方根。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Uh huh. What about it trivializes that crime? I guess it's just that there's no moral lens that we're looking at it through.

嗯，那它把罪行平凡化呢？，我想它只是,它只是没有我们看透的道德伦理。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There are ordinary, common, profane days, work days.

具体被分为平凡日，或者说普通日，世俗日和工作日。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Student: I guess it's because of the fact that he's doing something that's really not good, and it almost seems like he's trivializing it.

我想因为他想要做一些,不是很好的事情，他好像要使之平凡化。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So, Humbert's lack of a moral vocabulary to understand what he's doing makes it seems like it's trivialized.

所以，Humbert缺乏对道德准则的理解,他所做的事情让这一切似乎被平凡化了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选