And Milton's asking in these lines not simply about actual erotic entanglements -- although I think that's there, a relation with women -- but it's a question about erotic poetry as well.

在这几句弥尔顿问的不仅是,实际的性的缠绵--尽管我认为确实有这一方面，同女人的关系--他也是在问情诗的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This is reading from the packet assigned for today, and I'm going to ask you to do what you can to get through the biography of Milton in the packet, as well as the notes on Milton's poetry that we have from Dr. Samuel Johnson.

这是今天发的阅读材料里的，我要求你们尽量把材料里的,弥尔顿传记读一遍，还有,塞缪尔·约翰生博士为弥尔顿诗歌做的注释。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

pastor The word pastoral comes from the Latin pastor, which literally means "shepherd," and Milton knew perfectly well how artificial his use of the pastoral mode of poetry would seem as well as how out of fashion, how completely outdated, it would seem.

这个词来源于拉丁语中的，字面上表示“牧羊人“,弥尔顿非常清楚他对这种田园诗的运用,看起来有多么的不自然，过时，多么的落伍。

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