Sometimes we refer to them as "great books"-- in other words, the sort of text that speaks, or we feel as though it's speaking, to all places and times.

有时我们把这些称作为“伟大的书“,也就是说，在各个时空都有影响力的那些作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The study of political philosophy often begins as this course will do also with the study of the great books or some of the great books of our field.

政治哲学研究的开始,就像这门课的作法,常起始于研究一些伟大的巨著,或是一些我们研究领域内的巨著。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I've done a great deal of work on love and sex, and now have written at least eight books.

我大量研究爱情与性爱，到现在写了至少八本书了。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Peter the Great has books translated from the west, including John Locke, into Russian.

彼得大帝引进大量的西方著作,包括约翰·洛克的著作

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

They throw all kinds of old books, great old books, onto the bonfire.

抛掉了所有旧书刊,将珍贵的古籍,统统抛入火里

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

in his great depiction of hell in Books One and Two) to avoid the standard epic scenes of the torture of the damned, for example, with which we're familiar if we've read Homer or Virgil or, of course, Dante much later.

在他第一和第二册书对地狱的精彩描述）,去避免提及传统史诗中关于恶者被折磨的场景，例如我们所熟悉的那些场景,如果我们读过荷马的，维吉尔的，当然还有但丁的作品。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We're told what books, what works of art are great. - Right.

别人教导我们什么书和艺术伟大，-对。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Here's the editor, great editor of the publisher Faber & Faber, thirty years later, or more, surrounded by books, ; the cultural arbiter of the English speaking world; T.S. Eliot at sixty.

0年后，这就是费伯-费伯出版社的大编辑，被成堆的书籍包围着，被视为英语语言世界的文化标尺;,这就是60岁的艾略特。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Furthermore it would seem that the study of the great books or great thinkers of the past can easily degenerate into a kind of antiquarianism into a sort of pedantry.

更甚之,研究这些巨著或,过往的伟大思想家,更可能轻易地降格为古物癖,或是卖弄学问。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

There are 100 times more books, pamphlets, prints, and maps produced in Russia under the time of Peter the great than there had been in the whole previous century.

彼得大帝在位时期发行了大量的书籍,宣传册子,报纸和地图等印刷制品,数量比俄国过去一个世纪的总和还多百倍

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

If you look at the syllabus, you'll notice that we read a number of great and famous books, books by Aristotle, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, John Stewart Mill, and others.

如果你有留意教学大纲，就能发现,教学大纲里列出了不少人的著作，包括亚里士多德，约翰·洛克，伊曼努尔·康德，约翰·斯图尔特·穆勒及其他哲学家的著作。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

In one of the greatest books ever written on the South, by a Southerner, in particular Wilbur Cash's great classic in 1940 called The Mind of the South, he did something similar to Jefferson, although he's focusing only on Southerners here.

在所有由南方人撰写,关于南方的伟大作品中,韦尔伯·卡什1940年的一本堪称经典,在这本叫做《南方的精神》的书中,他如杰斐逊一般对南方人做了描述,尽管这本书中他仅描述了南方人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选