This is the modern city, not as a scene of fragmentation or despair, but rather a place of ascent and aspiration.

这是一座现代化的城市，并不是破碎或绝望的场景，而是一座在上升的渴望之城。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The metaphor suggests ecstasy, the exaltation of modern life, that aspiration imaged in Stieglitz too.

这个暗喻指的是心醉神迷，现代生活的狂喜，这种热切的渴望也反映在施蒂格利茨的照片中。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Socrates says he will be drowned in laughter but many other people have taken this dream or this aspiration very seriously.

苏格拉底说自己会被笑死,但更多人很严肃地,看待这个梦想或志向。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

There is a remarkable moment on page 280 where he talks about his aspiration as a writer.

大家关注一下第280页0,作为一个作家的渴望。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Yes. Somebody who is just on fire, with a certain kind of aspiration to compassion.

是的，一个被渴望，与同情心所燃烧的人。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

To keep that conception in regard to decent race relations alive and growing has been the aspiration of generation after generation in many an American family, judging by my own and by those I know.

美国世世代代,都憧憬这一种理想,那就是保持,广博开放的胸襟，来正确面对种族问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

To receive in the closing pages of your book one word of recognition for this aspiration, if it were possible for you to give such recognition honestly, would hearten all who believe in American ideals.

其实，在座的很多人,也认同这个，如果我们所有人都持有这种理想,并让其作为星星之火，得以燎原的话,那美国式的理想。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选