It's seeking to ascertain the meaning of events to draw larger philosophical, ideological conclusions from the events of history, and to point to the larger purpose or design of history, not to say just what happened, but to say why it happened and what it means for us today that it did happen.

它致力于查明事件的意义,得出哲学性的思想性的结论，从历史事件中，并且指出历史图景中的宏观目的，不说发生了什么，而阐明为什么它会发生,而它发生了对于今天的我们有何意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

In this case, this is one of the articles, in fact this was today's reading, I got here a little early so it was this particular article was assigned for today and-- but what shows up when you click on the initial tab is just the abstract of the article not the whole article itself.

例如这是其中一篇,实际上这是今天的资料,我今天到的比较早,所以把它放了上去,这是今天布置的文章,但当你们点击初始的按键时,只能看到文章的摘要而不是全文

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

This is what's called the Bohr radius, and we'll explain - hopefully we'll get to it today where this Bohr radius name comes from, but for now what you need to know is just that it's a constant, just treat it like a constant, and it turns out to be equal to or about 1/2 an angstrom.

它叫做玻尔半径，我们后面会解释,希望我们今天可以讲到,波尔半径这个名称的由来，但现在你们只要记住,它是一个常数，只要把它当做一个常数对待，它等于,或者是1/2埃。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选