The people in Paris are awaiting some sort of military help from the provinces, but it simply goes on and on.

巴黎民众翘首企盼,希望别的省份出兵相助,然而围困的僵局还是丝毫没有打破的迹象

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

So the Lady in the 1637 version of this poem, of this mask,is at an impasse.

所以在1637年版本的《面具》中，这位女士，陷入了僵局。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Modernity is, in his work, a condition of social and psychological fragmentation which is both a private, personal dilemma and a public one, as he understands it.

在他的作品里，现代性，是一种社会和心理上的零散状态,就他而言，这既是个人的僵局，也是社会的停滞不前。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The power of verse has everything to do with the power wielded by Sabrina to save the Lady from her paralysis.

诗篇的力量与Sabrina试图将女士,从僵局中解救出来所运用的力量密切相关。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This is a kind of meta-literary allegorization that I'll be performing here: you could also think of Milton the poet as being stuck at this same juncture.

这是一种元文学的语词新作,我现在会开始展示，你们也可以思考一下,诗人弥尔顿也在同样的时刻陷入僵局。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选