And so part of the wilderness experience for me I think Mark Twain talks about wilderness and he says, I do it chiefly because it is difficult.

对于我来说，荒野的经验就像是,马克吐温在谈到荒野时所说，因为困难，所以我才去做。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Okay, now the polis from the beginning, and it never stopped being what I'm about to say, chiefly agricultural communities.

好的,现在这些城邦开始了,我即将说到的,永无止息的社区化进程,主要在农业方面

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Sociologically unlike the philosopher is a person of some inherited wealth chiefly landed property but whose way of life will be urban.

亚里士多德清楚地指明,不像哲学家,前者继承了一定程度的财富,主要是地产,但其生活模式。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Chiefly what we hear about is in the area of the Nile Delta, right there on the Mediterranean Sea.

绝大部分都集中在,尼罗河三角洲地区,就在地中海入海口

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In this case defined chiefly by their intelligence, but other things too. Well, anyway in this case, in Greek political thinking the aristocracy of birth is the default position.

这主要取决于他们的才能,不过也包含其他方面,不管怎样,那个时候在希腊人的政治思维中,贵族统治就是初始的状态

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So what we think we know derives chiefly from archeological evidence, which is before writing--mute evidence that has to be interpreted and is very complicated, and is far from secure.

我们目前所认为的史实,主要都是从考古证据中所得,这些无声的证据出现于文字记录之前,因此就需要繁复的考证及解读,这些考证未必可靠

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

South of the Aeolian section of that was the region of Asia Minor inhabited chiefly by Ionians, the people on the mainland who are the main Ionians are the Athenians.

位于小亚细亚地区的伊奥利亚南部,主要居住爱奥尼亚人,而在内陆居住的爱奥尼亚人,主要都是雅典人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

These are linguistic terms. But of course, the people who spoke them, especially in the early years, tended to be part of a relatively narrow collection of people, who intermarried with each other chiefly, and therefore developed common cultural characteristics.

这时的希腊语主要是一些语意项,不过当然,那些讲希腊语的人,特别是在早期,是一个相对小范围的人群,他们主要在族群内部通婚,由此,发展出相近的文化特征

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选