Could it be that the hidden throb I stole from them did not affect their future? I had possessed her, and she never knew it.

它是不是我从那些人物那获取隐藏的脉搏,我为她着迷，她并不知晓。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Milton has shown so much promise. He possessed so many obvious talents that could be poured into the profession for which he was so clearly suited the profession of the ministry but Milton was remaining at his father's house in what seemed like a perpetual state of humiliating self-infantilization.

弥尔顿表现出了很大的决心,他拥有那么多,这个职业需要的天赋,例如牧师,而弥尔顿却选择呆在他父亲的房子里,像是一种永远羞耻的不成熟状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选