What good is it -- you'll remember -- what good is it, Milton asks, ; "to tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade"; that's, of course, the vocation of poetry if that shepherd-poet is just going to be struck down in his prime as Edward King had been?

大家可以看到，弥尔顿在这里发出了疑问，“进行平凡微不足道的诗歌创作“，又有何益;,当然，就田园诗人而言，诗歌的天命,是否在于如同爱德华金一般的英年早逝？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

You've got your flute-playing king, Frederick the Great, who could be awful. He could lash out.

普鲁士的腓特烈大帝热爱音乐,他很糟糕,花钱大手大脚

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The philosopher-king, he tells us, may be an object of hope or wish but Plato realizes that this possibility is not really to be expected.

他告诉我们，哲学家国王也许是希望或愿望的目标,但柏拉图了解到,这种可能性不是真的值得期待。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

A minority government of revolutionary Puritans had effectively taken control of the state. The radical Puritan Parliament voted to execute the tyrant -- what they considered to be the tyrant, King Charles I -- and to establish its own government.

清教徒革命者组建的少数政府成功的,控制了英国，激进的清教徒议会投票决定,处死暴君--他们认为是暴君的，国王查理一世--并组建自己的政府。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And,so,they proposed a deal, why don't you be king until you croak-- they didn't put it quite like that-- and then the Orleanists will take over with the red, white and blue flag?

于是他们提出一个交易,你死翘翘之前可以当国王--,这不是确切的原话--,然后奥尔良家族挂着红白蓝三色旗,接手政权

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