It's late for some personal reasons as well. Milton had been, as you know, anticipating writing this poem since he was at least nineteen years old.

也有一些个人原因，你们知道，弥尔顿至少在19岁的时候就想要写这样一首诗了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's sort of late in the day for students who have been through the better part of a semester thinking about the nature of death to argue, maybe, it wasn't such a good idea for you to take this class in the first place.

对学生来说有些太晚了,你们经历了大半个学期,思考着如何讨论死亡的本质，也许，你一开始来上这门课就不是个好主意。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选