He wrote a best-selling book. He was a poet, an artist and an airplane pilot.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

No English poet before Milton ever suggested that he had been chosen by God at birth to be a poet.

在弥尔顿之前没有英国诗人敢说,自己是被上帝选中去做诗人的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Yeah, so Frost is one of my favorite poets. I think Frost is interesting because he's a poet who is very popular

所以，罗伯特也是我最喜欢的诗人之一。我对他感兴趣是因为他很有名，

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Some critics said, "Count Buffon is more of a poet than a scientist."

VOA: special.2010.08.08

This is a poet who, with his wife, practiced automatic writing, who believed that the dead spoke through the living.

他是这样的诗人，和他妻子一起，尝试着，自动写作，他们相信死人通过活人说话。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

At first,swan song meant the last work of a poet, musician or writer.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

And my academic adviser was an out lesbian and she wrote about it. She was also a poet and a brilliant teacher.

但是，我的大学导师是个出柜的女同性恋,她对此还进行写作，她是个诗人,也是一个很棒的老师。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

That is Roland Legiardi-Laura,a poet,filmmaker and member of the Caf's board of directors.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

Milton represented himself as a poet more often and with more care and attention than any English poet before him.

弥尔顿比起之前的英国诗人,更经常把自己描绘成诗人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It is considered one of the highest honors a poet can receive.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

Now, you might say, "I could be a poet and what does that have to do with finance?"

也许你会问,我想做个诗人,这跟金融有关系吗

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Her mother was also a poet although her poems were never published.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

He was a poet, was a Harvard professor, "What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science-- information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance.

他生前是一位诗人，是哈佛的教授，“错的不是科学的重大发现-,有信息永远比无知强，不管是什么样信息和什么样无知。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Shel Silverstein did. He was a poet,writer,artist, musician and composer.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

Hesiod, whom I have not mentioned to you before, a poet who we think to have lived around 700 B.C., very early in the history of the polis, wrote one of his poems called, Works and Days.

赫西奥德,我之前跟你们提到过的,是一个生活在公元七百年左右的诗人,那还是在城邦历史的初期,创作了一首名为《工作与时日》的诗歌

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Good sir, I heard you are a poet .

VOA: special.2010.01.13

In the eighteenth century, a poet named Mark Akenside wrote a long poem called The Pleasures of the Imagination, and in this poem there is the line "The great creator raised his plastic arm."

在十八世纪，一位名叫马克？阿肯赛德的诗人写了一首长诗,叫《想象的快乐》,诗中有一句是,伟大的造物主举起了他的plastic的手臂“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I live with Him -- I see his face -- I go no more away For Visitor -- or Sundown-- Death's single privacy Dreams -- are well -- but Waking's better, If One wake at Morn -- If One wake at Midnight - better -- Dreaming -- of the Dawn -- This is my letter to the World That never wrote to me-- The simple News that Nature told-- With tender Majesty In those years, Dickinson seems to have found her "voice" as a poet.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

But a few verses later it's clear that the poet isn't really drowning: this is a metaphor for his difficult situation.

但是随后的几首诗证明了，诗人并没有真正的溺水：,这里的水象征着困境。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Iris Gomez says her goal as a poet - and now a novelist - is to help people overcome their fears and dream of a better future.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

The allusion to Aristophanes and the comic poet is a part of what Plato calls in Book X of the Republic the old quarrel between philosophy and poetry.

提及亚里斯多芬尼斯,是柏拉图《理想国》第10卷中所述,哲学与诗学长时争论的一部份,这项争论亦是柏拉图辩证的主体。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"Auld Lang Syne," by the eighteenth century Scottish poet Robert Burns, is a song about friends and remembering times long ago.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

They show us a poet taking language apart and putting it back together in new ways, new configurations, new anatomies.

它们给我们呈现的是一个顾此即彼的诗人,以新方式把他所言重新组合，新的形态，新的躯体。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

At a slam earlier this month, one poet performed a piece about a girl with a very troubled mother.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

With this first poem treating the subject of the nativity of Christ, Milton is able implicitly to announce something like his own nativity as a poet.

因为它的主题是基督诞生，弥尔顿能够含蓄的宣告一些东西,比如他作为一个诗人从此诞生了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Nikki Grimes is a children's writer and poet whose works include "Jazmin's Notebook" and "The Road to Paris."

VOA: special.2009.10.12

By becoming a poet for all sorts and kinds, Frost intends, as he says, to arrive "where I can stand on my legs as a poet and nothing else..."

通过成为所有类型的人的诗人，他想像他说的,“在他站立的地方都被尊称为诗人而不是其他“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

In eighteen eighty-three, American poet Emma Lazarus wrote a poem as if Lady Liberty were speaking.

VOA: special.2010.09.17

Well, it probably ends up having something to do with finance because as a poet you probably want to publish your poetry and you're going to be talking to publishers.

它很可能跟金融有关,因为作为一个诗人,你想要发表诗作,那你就得和出版商谈谈

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Now we began Lycidas with an image of a poet who could only write this poem -- this is what we were told -with forced fingers rude.

现在我们带着一个只能创作出这首诗的诗人的印象,来看这首诗,手指粗暴的用力攥着。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选