There are, of course, dozens of figures taken from the texts of classical mythology who are alluded to throughout the first two books, but invariably they appear, just as Tantalus does in this very passage, within the context of a simile.

当然，这部作品有很多人物是取材自,经典神话故事，他们是用来表达隐喻的,贯穿着前两册书，他们始终出现，就像丹达罗斯在这一诗篇中，给予诗内容一种喻示。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In Christianity,though,it means the list of texts that are scripture and recognized as different from other things.

然而在基督教里，它是作为圣典的一系列书籍,并被认为是与其他东西不同的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Now, texts from Ancient Near Eastern cultures suggest that a central function of the rituals that were performed in sanctuaries was to secure the perpetual aid and blessing of a well-disposed deity.

古近东文化的课文中提出,在圣所里进行的仪式的一个主要功能,是保证能够向神灵获得永久地帮助和祝福。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So, that is something these writers share with modernism, but there is one big difference and I want to exemplify that for you just by reading to you two parallel texts, one from the modernist canon and one from the Beat canon.

所以，这就是这些作者和现代主义的相似之处，但其中有个很大的区别，我想通过举例来说明,我给你们读两段类似的文字，分别是标准的现代主义风格和垮掉的一代的风格。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They've tended to view the elaborate and carefully constructed texts of P as part of a system whose meaning derives from the larger cultural matrix or grid in which those materials are embedded.

他们注意观察P中十分详尽和仔细构造的内容,这个内容属于某个系统的一部分,源自一个更大的文化母体或网络,所有的这些材料内容都包含在里面。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选