We know their dream; enough ; To know they dreamed and are dead; And what if excess of love Bewildered them till they died?

我们知道他们的梦,他们曾梦过，死了;,在他们死前就算过多的爱,曾使他们困惑，又怎样呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime... Milton is lamenting, once again, that Milton has been compelled to begin writing.

因为亲友的惨遇，痛苦的重压，迫使我前来扰乱你正茂的年华：,利西达斯死了，死于峥嵘岁月。,弥尔顿再一次哀叹道，他是不得以写这首诗的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, the barber is speaking about his son in such a way that he seems alive, but, in fact, he's dead. So here is one dead child playing baseball, or the memory of him playing baseball is alive with his father.

这个老理发师在用一种谈论,活人的口吻谈论他的儿子，但实际上他已经死了，那么，这里是一个打篮球的孩子的死，也许对他父亲而言，关于他打篮球的记忆将长存。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选