Who commissioned these paintings and what they painted tell you who these people thought they were.

那些人下订单并且告诉你所要画的内容,而从这些信息能猜出他们是怎么想自己的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

It has a lot to do with who they thought they were, the paintings they bought, the paintings they commissioned, the way they viewed themselves.

也与他们如何认识自己紧密相连,他们买什么样的画 他们委托画什么样的画,他们对自己的看法

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And so in the case of A Mask here, it's the Lord John Egerton, the Earl of Bridgewater who commissioned Milton to write a piece honoring his own inauguration in his new role as the Lord President of Wales.

所以在《面具》这个例子中，是贵族约翰埃杰顿，布里奇沃特伯爵,指派弥尔顿去写一篇文章,来歌颂他掌管威尔士的就职典礼的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

They commissioned a study, a cost-benefit analysis of smoking in the Czech Republic, and what their cost-benefit analysis found was the government gains by having Czech citizens smoke.

他们资助了一项研究，进行在捷克吸烟的成本效益分析，分析结果显示,让捷克人民吸烟，能让政府获利。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Actually, his death came rather suddenly and he was working on a requiem that someone had commissioned from him under rather mysterious circumstances and he began to think of it as his own requiem, and indeed, he didn't actually finish it.

其实,他的死来的比较突然,那时他正在谱写,由一个神秘人物委托的《安魂曲》,而且他开始把它当成了自己的安魂曲,而事实是,他其实并没有完成这部作品

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It's nearly always commissioned by the king to be performed at court before a private audience of select nobility, it's commissioned by an aristocratic family to be performed at the aristocratic family's estate to honor or to celebrate a specific occasion.

它几乎是由国王指派,去庭院表演给一部分贵族的，它是由一个贵族家庭指派,在贵族家族的房子里表演,是去庆祝一个特定场合的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选