And instead of this continual anticipation of writing something great, Milton's able to look back and find closure in something already written.

他并没有继续着写一些伟大的作品，而是追溯了过去，并在已完成的作品中寻找着终结。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I went to see a rich girl I knew. In the morning she pulled a hundred-dollar bill out of her silk stocking and said, "You've been talking of a trip to Frisco. That being the case, take this and go have your fun." So all of my problems were solved.

我去看望我以前认识的一位有钱的姑娘,到了早上，她从丝绸钱袋里取出一张100元的支票说：,“既然你那么向往到圣弗兰西斯科的旅行，拿着这个去寻找你的快乐吧“，这下我的问题全部解决了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.

从那时起，真理的朋友非常悲痛，只要看到尘土漫天飞扬，就学着伊西斯寻找被损害的欧西里斯,一样仔细寻找真理的影子，上上下下搜寻真理的碎片就像似乎他们真的能找到一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Here are humans who had to walk long distances potentially to find the food, kill the food at great risk to themselves; inspiring a cascade of physiological effects that have to do with fear and arousal and things like that, not to mention all the calories one would burn doing this kind of activity.

这些人可能需要走很远的路,去寻找食物,冒着巨大危险,杀死猎物,人们耗费能量以激活一系列生理效应,用以战胜恐惧,引发斗志,更不用说人们在狩猎的过程中,消耗的卡路里量了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选