We find ourselves easily intimidated by a list of famous names

我们会轻易发觉自己被盛名唬住了
and end up not thinking for ourselves.

最终忘记自己思考
Furthermore, doesn't the study of old books, often very old books,

此外研究的这些巨作通常年代久远
risk overlooking the issues facing us today?

难道不会有忽视当今问题的风险吗
What can Aristotle or Hobbes tells us

亚里士多德和霍布斯又能告诉我们什么
about the world of globalization, of terrorism, of ethnic conflict and the like?

诸如全球化恐怖主义种族冲突等问题
Doesn't political science make any progress?

政治科学没有任何进展吗
After all, economists no longer read Adam Smith.

毕竟经济学家已不再读亚当·斯密
I hesitate to... I don't hesitate to say

我犹豫我毫不犹豫地说
that you will never read Adam Smith in an economics course here at Yale,

你永远不会在耶鲁的经济课上读到亚当·斯密
and it is very unlikely

而且你也不大可能
that you will read Freud in your psychology classes.

在你的心理课上读到弗洛伊德