The moon was compared to Satan's shield, and Milton was preparing us then for this radically ambiguous status of this providential moon.

月亮在这里被比作撒旦的盾，弥尔顿准备着让我们了解到这个充满神意的月亮,所处的基本的暧昧不清的地位。

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She looks up at the telephone wires, and she thinks about all the messages, unintelligible, full of human longing, going back and forth across those wires.

她看着电话线，想着那些莫名其妙的，充满了人类欲望的信息电线上来回踱着步。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The Hobbesian state will always exist in a world of hostile other states, unregulated by some kind of higher law.

即国家总是存在于,一个充满敌意的世界里，而且总是被更高的法则约束着。

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He went in the hopefulness of youthful ambition, thinking the journey would make a man of him.

带着充满希望的野心，憧憬此次征程能将他铸造成为男人。

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