And what precisely are these cherubim that are stationed in front of the tree of life barring access?

这些守护生命树的天使,到底是什么东西？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The other character that's mentioned in the poem is the boy's father, whose trees they are, the property owner, who also is absent.

这首诗里提到的其他人是他的爸爸，这些树就是他爸爸的，这些财产的拥有者，但也没有出现。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He has to modify his plans for the first couple, by barring access to the tree of life. That was not something presumably he planned to do This is in response to, perhaps, their unforeseen disobedience certainly the way the story unfolds that's how it seems to us.

他更改了他的原计划，除了不能接近生命树,这些并不是他本打算做的事情,这也许是对意外挑衅的回应,故事是对后人的警告。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Here, you've got your basic barricade-- and these things are torn up, these are where trees came out of, as in 1968; and here's your sort of kiosk of modernity, somebody selling newspapers on these boulevards, or near these boulevards, and here's some of these people.

这个就是标准版街垒,这些东西后来都被毁掉了,这些树从中间长了出来,那是一九六八年了,这是一些现代的亭子,曾有一些人在这些街道或附近,售卖报纸,这些就是当时卖报的人

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

We would be told that he was very honest and told his father he chopped down a cherry tree, which would be baloney, but we would be told that too. But I think we would be told also very many true things, which came down to us.

我们还被告知他很诚实,因为他告诉父亲,他砍倒了一棵樱桃树,这简直是胡扯,但我们还是会听到这些,除此之外,我们还会听到一些真实的历史事件

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选