It wasn't immediately renewed -- because the United States got into a war that we call The War of 1812.
许可证并没有立即被更新,因为当时美国卷入了一场战争,被我们叫做1812年战争。
Suppose you're a member of some club and there's a meeting this afternoon and you won't be there, because you've got to be someplace else.
假设你是一个俱乐部成员,某天下午举行了一场会议,你不在场,因为你当时身处异地。
Because it's a battle of ideas.
因为这是一场观点的战争。
So I've given this first lecture a title, the title being "Milton, Power, and the Power of Milton," because any introduction to Milton has to confront the long-standing conviction in English letters of Milton's power or his strength as a poet.
所以我给这第一场讲座起名叫做,米尔顿,力量,以及米尔顿的力量“,因为只要要介绍米尔顿,就无法绕开,米尔顿作为诗人的力量,这一英国文学一直以来的话题。
This then leads to a very different discussion because A play is not a piece of text. A play is a living thing That is meant to be performed by actors in a particular setting. Different actors with different directors interpret the words of Shakespeare to the best. We can construct those words differently.
这引起一场很不同的讨论,因为一部戏剧不是一篇文章,而是活物,是要被演员在特定的场景下,表演出来的,不同的演员,和导演尽可能去诠释莎士比亚的文字,我们可以以不同方式建构这些文字。
But-- as my team was in the Michigan State game last Saturday, with me present, a very sad person you're looking at-- he was blown out, and on September 4th, 1870, there is yet another insurrection in Paris.
但是...,就像我们组上周六去参加密歇根州运会那样,就是因为有我这样的队员,有我这样的衰人参加...,他被打得满地找牙,在一八七零年九月四日,巴黎发生了另一场起义
And political leaders have represented this to their people as so it were a humanitarian effort which it is But they have not made clear to the people that they are fighting a war, they are fighting a war because of threat to them as well.
政府人员说这是一个人道主义的策略,但是他们并没有说明他们在进行一场战争,因为阿富汗对他们有威胁。
If I'm right in thinking immortality would be undesirable, then the fact that we're going to die is good, because it guarantees that we won't be immortal, which would be a nightmare, an unending nightmare.
如果永生不值得期许的观点是对的,那么我们终将一死的事实是好的,因为它保证我们不得永生,那是恶梦,一场永无止尽的恶梦。
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