I think it takes your breath away to think of the unspeakably high hopes that John Milton had for his career.

我觉得像弥尔顿这样说出自己对职业如此高的希望,是很让人吃惊的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We've spent a couple of weeks now reading Milton's declarations of the importance of the shepherd's trade.

几周以来我们读到的弥尔顿,一直在高谈牧羊人的营生的重要性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And you see this, going back to Socrates, there's a dialogue, the Gorgias, in which one of Socrates' friends, Callicles, tries to talk him out of philosophizing.

追溯到苏格拉底时代，就有这样一段对话，在《高尔吉亚篇》中，苏格拉底的一位朋友，卡里克利斯，试图说服苏格拉底放弃哲学思考。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

One of the great short stories of the last century begins with a sentence by Franz Kafka: "As Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."

上世纪最伟大的短篇小说之一,弗朗茨·卡夫卡所写的名篇是这样开头的,"一天早晨,格里高尔·萨姆沙,从不安的睡梦中醒来,发现自己躺在床上,变成了一只巨大的甲虫"

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选