And it's important to remember that Milton will - this is probably an invariable truth, but I'll qualify it nonetheless - that Milton will typically imitate his predecessors only with a difference.

重要的是我们要记住弥尔顿将,这应是无可否认的事实，但我还是要验证一下,弥尔顿通常将,模仿他的文学前辈而仅留一个不同之处。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

my predecessor Andrew Card was much disciplined.

我的前辈安德鲁·卡尔德更守纪律。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

You might think of walking in here expecting Professor Hungerford on censorship and getting me instead. But this is a very important idea for Nabokov both as a way of treating predecessors and as a way of writing. And I want to show you that way of writing very early in the book on page 10 now. Let's take a look at that.

你们可能期待亨格福特教授走上讲台,取代我讲审查制度，但这对纳博科夫而言,是非常重要的对待前辈和写作的方法,接下来，我将向你们展示,他的写作风格，在这本书的很前面，第10页，我们一起看一下。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And he says this about his own little research: "I shall not hesitate to put down for you with my interpretations whatsoever things I well learned at one time from the Presbyters," just meaning the old guys,elders,"and well remembered, confidently asserting truthfulness for them.

对于他自己的研究，他这样说：,“我会毫不犹豫地写下,我曾经从长老那里学到和记住的,一切东西，而且加上我的诠释“,长老指长者，前辈，“并自信地肯定他们的真实性。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

These are archived lecture notes that were written by my predecessor, Professor Witt.

这些事存档的课题笔记,由我的前辈，Witt教授写的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选