It's a good sort of question that gets raised in such a problematic allusion: how do you set out to write an original poem within such a conventional genre like the epic?

对于这样一项有问题的引用,提出这些问题是很好的：,你怎么能开始写一篇标榜原创的诗作,却使用史诗这一传统的文体呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still ; Things bad begun, make strong themselves by ill: So prythee go with me.

你听见我说话，却默不作声,坏事开始发生;,恶势力让他们更加壮大：,所以，跟我一起走吧。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The financial situation is not as bad as it was in the 1930s but it's getting bad and as a result we're starting to see proposals for big change.

现在的金融衍生工具已经不像当年那么拙劣了,但是它却开始走下坡路,所以最后的结果是,我们不得不准备着新的变革。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I want to start my lecture today looking back to that handout I gave you -but didn't give you a discussion of--a couple of days ago, ] from that essay Good Readers and Good Writers that I quoted at the very beginning of class this term.

今天我将用几天前发给你们的,却没有进行讨论的资料，开始我们的课程，从那篇叫做“好的作家和好的读者“的文章开始,我曾在本学期课程的最开始引用过它。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

the economy begins to recover, and then Hoover and the Congress decided what to do to fix things and they immediately make things worse, and Franklin Roosevelt comes in and keeps fixing it and keeps fixing it and keeps fixing it and the thing is bad bad bad.

经济开始复苏，然而胡佛和国会,却决定开始干预,并且他们一出手就把事情弄得很糟，然后富兰克林上任,不断再修理,不断修理不断修理,情况还是很糟糕很糟糕。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

They also, like J, want to assert a continuity, but in doing so, they do it in a way that really ultimately draws attention to the fundamental discontinuity, the sense of a new beginning.

他们也像J来源一样想保持一种统一延续性，虽这样做，他们却用了不同的方式,此方法最后却将人们的注意力吸引于非延续性，一种新的开始。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

If you've ever noticed, Mac OS has its Apple menu on the top left and Windows has its start menu in the bottom left, really for no compelling reason.

如果你注意到，你会发现，Mac操作系统,在其左上角是Apple菜单，Windows却把它的开始菜单,放在左下角，毫无理由可言。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

There are a lot of ways in which a red light means neither "stop" nor "go," but we are sort of confining ourselves so far to the ways in which a red light has something to do with locomotion or the lack thereof.

很多时候红灯既不表示停,也不表示走“,但是我们却惯性的认为,红灯就是提示开始或者停止移动。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Bank failures occur when there's not enough gold in the vault and then people start asking for the gold and the goldsmith banker doesn't have it to give out.

当金库没有足够的黄金时,银行就会倒闭,因为当人们开始索要黄金时,金匠银行家却拿不出来

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It doesn't match up very well though because interest rates have been going down since 1980 and the boom is very sudden, so it seems to me that Greenspan should have seen this bubble coming.

虽然这说法有些瑕疵,因为利率自1980年开始就一直下降,但繁荣却突如其来,所以我觉得,格林斯潘本应能看到泡沫的发生

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选