At a time when beards meant a great deal religiously, he's telling the men to shave off their beards.

在当时人们把大胡子当做虔诚的象征,彼得却叫人把胡子都刮了

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Look at line 119: Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A Sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful Herdman's art belongs!"

看一下第119行：,妄言之口！他们甚至不知如何掌控,愚钝之人，从未经受过学识的洗礼,文艺只属于虔诚的牧人！

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He tried to intimidate us too much with his promise of impossible grading so that everyone took the class credit/D/fail, when we all probably ended up with As or Bs.

他经常试着吓唬我们,通过他承诺的不可能的分数等级,所以每个人都虔诚的来上课/D/不及格，当我们几乎都已As或Bs结束时。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选