The metropolis, well, it's a place of ambivalence, a place of promise and of threat, of exultation and also of dread.

都市是一个自相矛盾的地方，既有希望，又有威胁，喜悦与恐惧相伴而存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So as one reads the epic one senses this very deep ambivalence regarding the relative virtues and evils of civilized life and many of the features that make us human.

当人们读到这一段的时候，总是会对文明生活方式的利弊,产生一种很矛盾的感情,然而正是这些特性让人区别于动物。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Again, this is his personal ambivalence about his own role, hanging around with ordinary people, sleeping in peasant lodgings and that sort of thing.

这也是他形象的两面性的证明,他喜欢在普通人身边游荡,或者住在农家小屋之类的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

This ambivalence that I'm describing is at the center of modern literature generally.

我所叙述的这种矛盾,是始终存在于现代文学的中心思想中的。

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Peter the Great had an enormous ambivalence about his role and his image as a czar.

即彼得大帝的一言一行,很不符合沙皇的身份

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

This ambivalence that was part of his personal life, the way he lived, would be a constant theme in subsequent Russian and still, in many ways, is today.

这种矛盾成了他个人生活的一部分,他的这种矛盾的生活方式在接下来的俄国,即便是在今天的俄国也是个不变的主题

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Again, this is just his personal ambivalence about who he was, and his uncertainty about the role that he had in his own family So, this was a play-acting that was part of his life.

这也表明他对自己的身份的矛盾,以及自己在家庭中的角色的不确定,所以,这种角色扮演成为他生活的一部分

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Another point about this sort of ambivalence about being czar is that he often made a point of choosing his most trusted advisors from the ranks of commoners and gave them the right to become titled after a certain amount of time after a certain amount of time in the royal bureaucracy.

他作为沙皇矛盾的另一点是,他最信任的顾问,常常是从普通民众中选出来的,而且经过一段时间后,他会在皇家官僚机构中给他们一个头衔

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选