And he says on page 884: A poet writes always of his personal life, in his finest work out of its tragedies, whatever it be, ; remorse, lost love or mere loneliness; he never speaks directly as to someone at the breakfast table there is always a phantasmagoria.

84页他说道：,诗人总写自己的生活，最好的作品总是悲剧，不管是后悔，失恋或孤独;,这是他不会在餐桌上讲的,总是有这样一种幻境。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

I'm convinced that it's the reader's job to apply the same degree of critical scrutiny, a kind of Galilean critical scrutiny, to the image of Providence that will be elaborated, as you will see, at extraordinary length in Book Three of Paradise Lost.

我相信，把同等程度的细致的挑剔的观察,一种伽利略式的吹毛求疵的观察精神，运用到对将要被详细说明的天命的形象上去，是读者该做的事，你们往后会发现，卷三里洋洋洒洒写了很多。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The big question for American now is whether there will be light at the end of the tunnel after more than 8 years of war there, after all that life lost and fouture spent.

现在对于美国一个重要的问题就是,是否有曙光的出现,8年的战争中，美国政府花费了大量的金钱，很多人也因为战争也失去了生命。

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