He's able to justify the ways of God to men here on the physical - on this intimately bodily earth.

弥尔顿得以从这具体的物质的人间的角度,证明了上帝待人之法。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's always Milton's duty - this is the reason that he was put on this earth: to liberate a people from any such constraining customs.

弥尔顿的使命是,-他是为此才诞于世上：,将英格兰民族从所有抑制人的传统中解放出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Now, there's nothing special about annual-- that's the time it take the Earth to go around the sun, but it doesn't have any relevance to finance-- but we are just accustomed to using that.

这里所谓的一年也没什么特别,就是地球绕太阳一圈的时间,和金融没什么关系,我们只是习惯这么用

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And Abraham's reaction comes as something of a surprise. He objects to the plan, and he starts to argue with God. "Will you sweep away the innocent along with the guilty? Shall not the judge of all the earth justly?" That's in Genesis 18:23-25. The question is of course rhetorical.

亚伯拉罕的反应时一种惊奇，他反对,这个计划，他开始与上帝争论，“无论善恶,你都要剿灭吗？审判全地的主岂能不行公义么？“，这在,《创世纪》第18章第23至25章，这个问题当然是夸张的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The image of men, and it's a grotesque image, of men rifling the bowels of their mother earth for treasures better hid - this is a disgusting and terrifying image of a lot of things.

人的形象是十分丑陋的，他们深深切入土地母亲以寻找被埋藏的宝藏,很多东西的形象是令人恶心的且十分恐怖的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

What's at stake, or what might be at stake in this connection between Milton's own postprandial groaning and moaning and the even more poignant post-lapsarian groaning of Adam and Eve and the entire earth?

这里为什么要把,弥尔顿餐后的这种呻吟,与甚至更悲伤的亚当和夏娃的餐后呻吟,还有整个大地的呻吟联系起来呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Mulciber fell long before Homer because Mulciber fell long before the creation of the earth -- and it's Milton, and it's no other poet before Milton, who's finally able to set the record straight. Milton's insisting here that all of the pagan deities had originally been fallen angels.

莫西伯在荷马出世前就堕落了因为,他早在大地被创造前就堕落了，是弥尔顿，在弥尔顿之前没有别的诗人，能够最终印证这个记录，弥尔顿在这里坚持的是,所有异教神原本都是堕落天使。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So he decides to destroy the gods - and he is thwarted by a water god named Ea, an earth-water god- En sorry, he's a combination earth-water god--named Ea.

于是他便决定摧毁神灵,但他被一个叫做En的水神阻止，他是一个土神，不，水神-,对不起，他是水神和土神的合体，名叫。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It's possible that he's hiding his talent or burying his conceived merits deep within the earth, and it's this frightening possibility that Milton forces himself to engage head on - the implications of this parable.

他不可能总藏着他的才能,或者把他即将成形的文章埋在地下，就是这种可怕的可能性,使弥尔顿敦促自己注意,这则寓言的暗示。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选