They don't legislate compassion. It's likely that these were considered acts of, who knows, personal conscience, religious conviction, something that was between the individual and society and their God.

也没有给同情立法，这可能是由于人们认为这些行为,只关乎个人良知，宗教信念或者是，介于个人，社会和上帝之间的某一事物。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Let me just quote one other passage briefly from the second speech that he gives to the jury after his conviction.

让我简短引用,第二场辩论时的另外一段,在他被陪审团定罪之后。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The most salient feature of the Deuteronomistic School is the conviction that Israel's residence in the land is a function of its obedience or disobedience to the covenant with Yahweh.

申命记学院派最突出的特点是,它认为以色列能居住于土地是因为,他顺从上帝，或者说是不遵从与耶和华的契约。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

My belief in books had risen more out of a sense of desperation than from my abiding conviction of their ultimate value.

我对书的信仰更多的是来自一种绝望,而非我对其本质的长期依赖，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So I've given this first lecture a title, the title being "Milton, Power, and the Power of Milton," because any introduction to Milton has to confront the long-standing conviction in English letters of Milton's power or his strength as a poet.

所以我给这第一场讲座起名叫做，米尔顿，力量，以及米尔顿的力量“,因为只要要介绍米尔顿，就无法绕开,米尔顿作为诗人的力量,这一英国文学一直以来的话题。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Of course,these are also theological matters, and so I'm not trying to say anything here today to argue you out of the theological conviction that God will resurrect the body or God will transplant your personality into some new angel body, but if you believe in the personality theory, that will be you,or what have you.

当然，这些也是神学上的问题，我今天不会和你争辩,上帝能复活肉体或者将人格移植,进入新的某个天使的肉体，但如果你相信人格理论，那还是将成为你。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And that conviction is going to color its presentation, its evaluation and its interpretation of Israel's history and her kings from Joshua right through to 2 Kings.

这一认定将会影响它的描述，它的评估和它对以色列历史的解读,以及它的国王们，从《约书亚》一直到《列王记》

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So much more important than historical verifiability is the conviction of the ancient Israelites who received and venerated these traditions, and developed them, and embellished them, that God had once acted on their behalf, rescuing them from bondage, binding them to himself in an eternal covenant.

无比史料证明更重要的是,古代以色列人坚定的信仰,他们接受并且崇敬那些传统，将它们发扬，美化它们，认为上帝曾为了他们而行动，将他们从奴役中解救，在永恒的契约中将他们与上帝联系在一起。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选