Not just to enliven these abstract and distant books but to make clear, to bring out what's at stake in our everyday lives, including our political lives, for philosophy.

不仅是为了将这些深奥抽象的著作形象化,还为了让我们通过哲学辨明,日常生活，包括政治生活中什么才是最关键的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And part of the pleasure for him is to do that transaction, to enliven the old East with the young West. These are all stereotypes of America, but Sal really believes them and really inhabits them.

他将这群人带到纽约，其中的乐趣在于一种“交换“,他想让新西部带动老西部，使其活跃，不过这些都是,对美国的刻板印象，但萨尔真的相信，这种印象占据他大脑。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选