Because they represent dimensions of experience formerly excluded from the elevated, idealized discourse that is poetry, dimensions of experience excluded as prosaic.

因为它们分别代表了原先经验的多维化,却将提升的理想化的论道即诗歌排除在外，将无趣的经验也排除在外。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

We have a philosophy that--most of us-- that some kind of economic inequality is a bad thing and that it's unjust for someone who is, for no fault of his or her own, suffering economic hardship.

我们一般认为，大部分人看来-,某些贫富差异是件坏事,对于那些本身并无过错，却深陷贫困泥沼的人来说是不公平的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You remember he's written his father in "Ad Patrem" that the trade, the vocation of poetry -- it may be homely and slighted in his father's eyes, but it was of course worth all of Milton's time, all of Milton's uncessant care and investment.

他在写给父亲的Ad，Patrem中说，写诗这个职业在父亲看来或许,简单无趣，却值得弥尔顿付出所有的时间，精力，和投资。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选