If we want to think of it in the more familiar domestic context, Milton has to begin a career that could please both himself and his father Now last time I mentioned the dramatic structure of this poem.

如果我们想更贴切的了解的话，弥尔顿不得不从事一项能使他自己和他父亲都满意的职业,我现在最后一次提及这首诗的戏剧性结构。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Milton has shown so much promise. He possessed so many obvious talents that could be poured into the profession for which he was so clearly suited the profession of the ministry but Milton was remaining at his father's house in what seemed like a perpetual state of humiliating self-infantilization.

弥尔顿表现出了很大的决心,他拥有那么多,这个职业需要的天赋,例如牧师,而弥尔顿却选择呆在他父亲的房子里,像是一种永远羞耻的不成熟状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

You remember he's written his father in "Ad Patrem" that the trade, the vocation of poetry -- it may be homely and slighted in his father's eyes, but it was of course worth all of Milton's time, all of Milton's uncessant care and investment.

他在写给父亲的Ad，Patrem中说，写诗这个职业在父亲看来或许,简单无趣，却值得弥尔顿付出所有的时间，精力，和投资。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选