Roman doctrine, of course, had prized the state of celibacy, insisting that it was the superior state over marriage.

当然罗马教义曾赞扬独身主义，坚持认为那是比婚姻更优良的状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I strongly believe that reasonable animal testing is a good thing for society overall.

我坚持认为，合理的动物实验是可以造福社会的。

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Read everything you can, Milton insists, because only then can you overcome what he thinks of and characterizes as the temptation of reading.

尽可能地阅读，弥尔顿坚持到，因为只有这样你才能抵抗他认为以及标榜为的,阅读对人产生的诱惑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I think the only way we can stand for our values is to have a policy consistent with those values.

我认为我们唯一能坚持我们价值观的方法是,制定一套与这些价值观相统一的政策。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

I agree, meditation is not something that you just do for an hour a day or a month or however much time you do it, it's supposed to be a practice you implement into your daily life.

我也认为冥想不是坚持一天或一个月,就能达到的,不管花多少时间在上面，这都只是种练习,要融入到日常生活中去。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And I think many parents believe that if they didn't persist in using these things their children would never learn to speak.

我相信很多父母认为,如果他们不坚持使用这些东西,他们的孩子将永远也学不会说话

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And then, they're proud of it and they insist that I, not inflict, but rather induce you, invite you to do the same thing.

然后，他们引以为豪并且坚持认为，我不是强迫，而是说服，邀请你去做同样一件事。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Yeats seems to be insisting through Jane on the necessity of shattering experience to achieve unity of being, which Yeats imagines, again, as the union of opposites.

叶芝似乎通过珍妮坚持,认为经过破碎达到存在的统一,的必要性，所谓的统一，叶芝想象的还是相对立事物的统一。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And yet for all that dualists could consistently say, still same soul as not the key to personal identity, same personality is the key to personal identity.

所有的二元论者都可以坚持认为,同样的灵魂并非,人格同一性的关键，同样的人格,才是人格同一性的关键。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

indivisible sovereign power, Hobbes' insistence that the sovereign exercise complete control over the churches, over the university curricula, and over what books and opinions can be read and taught.

至于不可分割的君主权力，霍布斯坚持认为，君主可以,完全控制教会，控制大学的教学，控制什么书和思想,可以被阅读和传授。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Whatever the proposal is on by anybody, Obama, Clinton or McCain I think it should be consistent And so the question is that ? should you make the tax cuts permanent?

任何提案，不管是谁制定的，奥巴马也好，克林顿或者麦凯恩也罢,我认为都应当坚持实施下去,明确了这一点，那么现在的问题是,减税政策到底是否应该长期实施？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Now the Elder Brother, we remember, hastily dismissed his brother's pessimism, and then he insisted that the Lady's virginity was fully capable of protecting her from any such physical attack.

这时候哥哥，我们记得，立即消除了弟弟的忧虑，他坚持认为,少女的贞洁完全可以,保护她不受任何外界伤害。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Do you think that we have the stomach to stay there for as long as it takes to stablise the country, given how important it is We are going to stay there for as long as we do.

考虑到重要性,您认为我们能不能坚持到这个国家的稳定,我们会留在那里。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

re seen as having betrayed our principles, re seen as no longer standing for the things that Americans think we stand for, for liberty and democracy and justice.

大家认为我们背叛了我们的原则，We’,大家认为我们，We’,不再坚持我们的主张，不再主张自由，民主和正义。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选