That doesn't seem right He's not dead on Monday ? How could I kill him on Monday?

似乎不是,他星期一还没死,我怎么可能在星期一杀死了他？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I think that Milton intends for us to think of the verse in Paradise Lost as he wanted us to think of books in Areopagitica: the lines of Milton's poetry are not absolutely dead things, but they do contain within them a potency of life.

弥尔顿在《论出版自由中》让我们把书看作是肉体,我想他也想让我们这样看待《失乐园》的诗句：,弥尔顿的诗句不是毫无生气的，它们蕴含着生命的潜质。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选