What if he died before he was able to fulfill his promise as a poet, ? before he could publish or make public his talent?

要是他还没能实现成为诗人的愿望，还没能彰显自己的才华就死了呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

At some point there was a desire to separate, and in that process of identity formation, a polemic began to develop that created Yahweh in a distinct way, differentiated from the Canaanite deities.

某些时候，有非常强烈的分离的愿望，在这个过程中，也就形成了他们自己的身份，塑造截然不同的耶和华这一理论便开始发展，要与迦南的众神有所差别。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And the doctor told me it is good for me to express my creative urges.

医生也告诉我,表达出我自己强烈的愿望对我有好处。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The sovereign is not the direct expression of my will or your will, but rather an abstraction from my natural desire to rule myself.

君主制不是对我的，或者你的意志的直接表达,不如说是一种抽象概念,是源于自己统治自己的自然愿望。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Where you've got a couple of wishes and you aren't careful about how exactly you state the wish And so you get what you want ? but it ends up being a nightmare,right?

给你几个可以实现的愿望,但是不小心没说对愿望,你得到了自己想要的,却发现那是个噩梦对不对？

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