But it's a difficult claim because even as Milton makes this claim, he manages to undermine its force.

但这是困难的，因为即便是弥尔顿做出了这一宣告，他也打算降低它所蕴含的威力。

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The notion of autonomy, the notion of the freedom of the poem from any kind of dependence in the world, is something that is very easy to undermine critically.

自主的观念，世界上各种,独立的诗的自由，很容易被破坏。

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For some of you it may be difficult I know that and I want you to rest assured that no one in this course wishes to undermine or malign religious faith any more than they wish to promote or proselytize for religious faith.

我知道对你们中的另一些人来说这门课会有困难,不过我想要你们放心,这门课上没有人想要破灭和诋毁宗教信仰,同样也没人想要劝诱他人信教。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It's worth saying a word about that, because I want to undermine any great confidence that you may have and what you can believe that scholars tell you, because we keep finding out how wrong we are about all kinds of things.

这里得说的是,我想给自信满满的家伙泼点儿冷水,你曾深信不疑的学者们告诉你的那些事,不断被发现,并在很多问题上都存在纰漏

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

What better way to drive home the point that inhumanity and violence undermine the very foundations of society than to describe a situation in which a cosmic catastrophe results from human corruption and violence.

我们应该铭记在心的一点是,任何非人道的行为都会侵蚀人类社会存在的根基,而不是简单的描述一个人类因其堕落和血腥,招致的一场大灾难的场景。

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