So that it's a good thing to be born, " even though your life is going to be followed by death."

所以出生是件好事，尽管你的生命结束之后是死亡“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Once again, there is that moment of suspense that the reader is able to get through with a kind of pleasurable excitement and then overcome as the moral is actually revealed.

同样，还存在一刻的悬念,让读者能带着愉悦的兴奋感读完整部作品,接着在寓意揭露之后，悬念结束。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Milton has just returned home after seven years at the university, a university education so generously financed by his father who was actually now 70 years old, and John Milton, Jr.

弥尔顿在7年的大学学习结束之后回到家中，他父亲如此慷慨的资助他完成了学业,而此时弥尔顿的父亲已经70岁了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Having thus subdued her, he extinguished her life.

征服了她之后，他结束了她的性命。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And a twenty-four-year-old Milton, after seven years of education, simply decides not to go. Instead of joining the ministry, Milton instead returns home and he stays at home without any means of supporting himself for six years.

而24岁的弥尔顿，在结束了7年的学业之后，却决定不那么做,他反而是回到了家中,在家里呆了6年。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选