Even though "Lost" featured an evil smoke monster, which terrorized the castaways, executive producer Jack Bender says the show was really more about the monsters within the characters.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Galileo is the only contemporary personage, the only seventeenth-century figure, even so much as mentioned in Paradise Lost.

伽利略是唯一的一个当代人物，唯一的一个17世纪的人物，甚至在里也提到了这点。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, there's a kind of lost paradise of European culture which he can't get back, even with this spectacular effort in English.

所以，这就是他不能再重新体验的,欧洲文化的失乐园，尽管在英语上做了惊人的努力。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The Philippines this week said it is cutting rice imports because of high prices, even though the country lost more than a million tons of grain to typhoons this year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

Buried, lost, people didn't even know where they were, that's extraordinary.

它们被掩埋了,消亡了,人们甚至不知道那些城邦在哪里,这非常令人惊奇

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

That Satan is still able to doubt the legitimacy of God's power is a testimony to the complexity, I think, of the analysis of power in Paradise Lost. No power, not even God's power, can be irresistibly and indisputably proven.

我认为，撒旦尚能怀疑上帝力量的正统性,就证明了，《失乐园》中对力量的分析的复杂性，即使是上帝的力量，也不能被不可抗拒，无可置疑的证明。

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Even so experimental a book as John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse is totally absorbed in the problem of what it would mean to write about yourself.

就算约翰，巴思的《迷失在游乐场》这么一部实验小说,也在专注一个问题,就是写关于自己经历的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选