Its difficulty lies in Milton's tendency in this poem to seek out what Dr. Johnson wonderfully calls remote allusions.

诗的难点在于弥尔顿想要在诗中极力追求,被约翰逊绝妙地称为不切实际的幻想的倾向。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Milton seems to have dug around rather carefully in his copy of the Faerie Queene, and he's come up with this illusion.

弥尔顿似乎极其小心地模仿着《仙后》,且他出现了这样一种幻想。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Here I paused in my fiction to shield my eyes and stanch the arrow-straight tracks clawed down my cheek.

飞箭在我脸上笔直地犁出了一条伤口，我停止了幻想,遮住眼睛，赶忙去止血。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And many have imagined," one thinks here of Plato, perhaps, but also to Christianity" Many have imagined republics and principalities that have never been seen " or known to exist in truth.

因为已有太多的梦想家“,其中一人即柏拉图，但也可能是基督教“,“已有太多对共和,与君权的幻想,而那从来都未真实地存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

You can very quickly drive yourself nuts by sitting down, thinking, oh, I can write this program, no sweat, and then you write it and then there's a tiny little mistake here, but then there's a tiny little mistake here and here, and all of these stupid little things cascade until you try running your program, and the thing just doesn't work.

如果你只是仅仅干坐着，不费吹灰之力，凭空幻想着我可以把这个项目搞定，你会想地发疯的，也许你会写出一点东西出来，可能会有一点点错误,紧接着这或那又出现一点小错误，这些小错误一点一点地堆积了起来,直到你开始运行你整个项目，你会发现这堆东西根本就不工作。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选