I have to read these lines again: "And when they list, their lean and flashy songs grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw."

我需要再读一遍这些句子：,“当他们列举出他们贫瘠而浮华的歌颂时“,亦显示出卑鄙无能的低劣之声“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Oh, Son. Did you not ever go on your knees and pray for deliverance from all your sins and scoundrel's acts? Lost boy, depart.

噢，儿子！你怎么不跪下，为了对你的所有,罪恶和卑鄙行为的判决而祈祷，迷失的孩子，走吧。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And by nihilism, I mean the view that every preference, however squalid, base or sordid, must be regarded as the legitimate equal of every other.

我所谓的虚无主义,意指所有偏好，无论如何卑鄙，拙劣，或下贱都必需被视为,与所有其它同等合法。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He is abject. He is a shining example of moral leprosy, a mixture of ferocity and jocularity that betrays supreme misery, perhaps, but is not conducive to attractiveness.

他很卑鄙，他是道德败坏的典型，他是凶残和,滑稽的结合体，背叛了至高的痛苦，但也并不吸引人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

One of them, played by Orson Welles, is in a black market racket in Vienna and is making a living doing something very bad in the black market.

其中由，Orson，Welles，扮演的，一位活跃于维也纳的黑市勾当,生计主要是靠在黑市中,从事非常卑鄙的交易。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选