He lost Conkling's support by refusing to name one of Conkling's supporters Secretary of the Treasury.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

She's alluding here, I think, to one of the most famous passages in Paradise Lost in which Milton is asserting nothing other than his poetic power.

我认为，她这里是在暗指，《失乐园》最著名的篇章之一,在这篇章中弥尔顿仅仅是在展示他诗句的力量。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And that is the sort of psycho-analytic one, ascribing this sense of lost in the past, to the death of Welles's mother.

这里面也有一点心理分析的成分，将迷失在过去的感觉归因于，是威尔斯母亲的去世。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

This one of our ways of being a part of that. It's disheartening to see we lost the first round,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

One of the labors of reading Paradise Lost is the reader's obligation to supply the analog for the X, and this poem is filled with such X's.

读的一个麻烦就是,读者需要自行类比出X究竟是什么，偏偏诗中又充满了这种不确定物。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

South Africa lost this first bid to Germany by one vote, but Jordaan says that only strengthened the team's resolve.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07