They're not stories about pious people whose actions are always exemplary and whose lives should be models for our own, despite what Sunday School curricula will often turn them into.

不是讲那些应该拿来做榜样的,圣人的典范故事,只有主日学校会把他们讲成那样。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Because of Western civilization's emergence as the exemplary civilization, it also presents problems to the whole world.

虽然西方文明的崛起,作为现代文明的模板,但是它也反映出了世界范围内的现存问题

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The Greeks already had a century's long tradition of poetic education going back centuries to the time of Homer and Hesiod that set out certain exemplary models of heroic virtue and civic life.

希腊人已有世纪长的,诗学教育传统,可回溯到几个世纪前的荷马,与赫西奥德，他们为,英雄美德与公民生活确立了典范。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选