He's a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas, and the text seems almost to suggest that Milton can't do without his own teacher, Edmund Spenser.

他是一位比苏格拉底和阿奎那更好的良师，这些文章几乎暗示了弥尔顿,没有老师埃蒙德·斯潘塞则不能做到弃绝那些诱惑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

However evil those books are in and of themselves, we have to read them so that we might see and know and yet abstain.

但是邪恶也藏在这些书中，我们不得不读它们以便能看到并了解它们然后将之弃绝。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

What kind of citizen is it, is he or she who abstains from, maybe even rejects, the harsh necessities, ? requirements of political life?

哪种公民，会弃绝，甚至拒绝这种严苛的必需性，拒绝这种政治生活的需求？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

You may think you've gotten away with something, but every act of social exploitation, every act of moral corruption, pollutes the sanctuary more and more until such time as God is driven out entirely and human society is devoured by its own viciousness and death-dealing.

犯了罪的人也许认为自己侥幸逃过一劫，然而他对所作的每一个行为，每一次的道德堕落，都会越来越玷污圣所,知道有一天上帝完全弃圣所而去,人类社会充斥着我们自身的邪恶和毁灭行为。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Now, scholars are ingenious in their ability to skirt absolutely the central conundrum of Providence that this poem raises ; and which it raises so insistently and really refuses to let go of; but that doesn't mean that the problem just goes away.

学者们非常精明的,在这首诗里体现出的天意的中心问题上打擦边球,这个观点如此坚决我们无法弃之不管;,但那并不意味着问题就这样解决了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选