So as a very "grave author" - and this is what Chudleigh is implying -- Milton can tell us something potentially true about the priority of the sexes.

因此作为一个“严肃的作家“,-这是恰德莱暗示的--弥尔顿能告诉我们,关于性别优先地位的一些真相。

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It's much more serious and strange. Okay. So that's enough on Eliot.

那个更严肃更奇怪，好吧，关于艾略特的讨论就到这。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This is wildly inappropriate, I think, in such a pious poem.

在这样一首严肃的诗中，这是很不合适的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But there's also some very serious implications of this kind of work.

但是这类研究也有些严肃的暗示意义。

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Maybe they are exaggerations and I think to some degree they are but it's revealing that both of these very serious readers of Machiavelli took him to be an apostle of freedom.

也许他们过于夸张了，而且我认为,某种程度上他们确实是，但具有启迪意义的是,这两个严肃的马基雅维利的读者,都把他看作自由的传道者。

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It is a comic novel and as such very serious.

这虽然是部关于一个,却不失严肃。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选