It usually follows from this that somebody like this points out that whereas we all know that a democratic society is the best society to live in, poetry prefers feudal society: it makes better poetry.

赞成这种观点的人指出,虽然我们都知道,民主社会是最适合生存的，诗歌却更喜欢封建社会：,因为封建社会更适合诗歌创作。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So, there's a tremendous variety of material in this library, and it follows from the fact that it's not a book but an anthology of diverse works, that it's not an ideological monolith.

在这座图书馆里有丰富多样的材料，因此这不仅是一本书,而是各种各样文献的合集，这不是什么讲思想道德的长篇大论。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And it follows from this, Hobbes believes, that the sovereign has the right to decide what opinions, what books, what ideas are conducive to peace and which ones aim simply to stir up war and discontent?

正如前文所说，霍布斯坚信，君主有权决定哪些言论,哪些书籍和哪些主张,是有益于社会和平,哪些是可能挑起冲突和战争的？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It seems to be presented entirely innocuously, no one in the dialogue objects to it, yet everything else follows from this idea that the city, the polis, is in the central respect like an individual, like the soul of an individual.

这似乎看起来完全无关紧要，所以对话中的每一个人都不反对，但之后所有的事都慢慢浮现,就从这个概念开始,城市、城邦，重视的核心与个人相同，也像个人的灵魂。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选