And according to this image of the vocation of the poet, Milton isn't claiming divine inspiration at all. He's making a deal.

通过这种对诗人职业的比喻，弥尔顿并不在宣传神圣精神，他在做生意。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

If might be an image, a comparison, the finding of likeness between unlike things which is at the heart of metaphor and simile making.

也可能是一个意象，一个对比，在不同之物中寻找到的相同点,而这也是隐喻和明喻的内涵。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Remember, they were made in the image of God And they learn that they have moral autonomy by making the defiant choice, the choice for disobedience.

记住，他们是依照上帝的模样而创造,他们也意识到自己有自主的道德,通过做出忤逆的选择，选择违背。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

First of all, it suggests of course that he was giving language to something, making a specific image out of something, that didn't quite have that specific content in his experience as a child.

第一，这的确可以反映出,他是在描述东西，运用某种东西来描述一个形象，在他作为孩子的经历中,那东西没有特殊的意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选