Stanford librarian Michael Keller says the initiative can give new life to obscure books.

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is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions.

不是真挚情感的流露;,真情不是通过遥远的幻境和隐晦的观点来表达的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I discussed Soviet movies with expatriates. I sat with uranists in the Deux Magots. I published tortuous essays in obscure journals.

我和流浪者大谈苏联电影，我和,铀矿学家一起坐在“第二人像“里，我在小报上发表。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

One said the Jackson family was regarded as royalty when she was growing up, but the singer's many plastic surgeries made some believe he hoped to obscure his black identity.

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Johnson tells us that Lycidas is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion, for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions.

约翰逊说《利西达斯》不是,真挚情感的流露，因为真情不是通过遥远的幻境和隐晦的观点来表达的。

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There was a case of a very minor insurrection in an obscure Italian city in 1848 where the people of the town literally locked the ruler out of the town-- and Italy remains decentralized.

在1848年,有一场小规模叛乱,发生在一个意大利的小城里,人们把统治者锁在城门外面,如今意大利仍然是四分五裂的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

For those who are already engrossed in the reading of Ulysses, as well as for those who hesitate to begin it because they fear that it is obscure, the publishers offer this simple clue as to what the critical fuss is all about.

针对那些已经完全沉浸于这本书的人，以及那些因为害怕内容晦涩而还犹豫不决的人,出版商提供了一些简单的线索,告诉大家这部伟大之作的简要涵义。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It's difficult to imagine that as an expression of genuine grief over the death of a genuinely close friend would take the form of a poem so learned, so filled with remote literary allusions and obscure opinions.

这首诗是为表达对挚友逝去的真挚悲痛,却采取了这样一种如此博学，如此充满,遥远的幻境和隐晦的观点的形式,这确实是难以想象的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选