I fully understand the value of what you are driving at, but frankly, the narrative as it now stands simply will not support a more general or hopeful conclusion.

但你的提议太含糊不清，说实话，你说的,无助于更好的结局。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The first or former Prophets continues the kind of narrative prose account of the history of Israel, focusing on the activities of Israel's prophets.

前先知书延续了叙事性的风格,来讲述以色列历史，侧重于讲以色列关于预言的一些活动。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He's introducing the reader to a mode of vision different from the vision typically permitted him from within the poem's more or less straightforward, linear, narrative boundaries.

他在向读者介绍一种不同于这首诗里,直白的线状叙述的界限,或多或少已经容许他，显露出的设想有所不同的先见之明。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Those are plays though, and all English narrative poems, including all of Shakespeare's narrative poems, they had all been written in rhyme, either long verse paragraphs of rhymed heroic couplets or in intricately rhymed stanzas.

但那些是戏剧，所有的英语叙事诗，包括所有莎士比亚的叙事诗，都是押韵的，不管是英雄双韵体的大段诗篇,还是精巧押韵的诗节。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Some of these books which we think are roughly from a certain date, they will contain narrative snippets or legal materials or oral traditions that may even date back or stretch back further in time, and they were perhaps transmitted orally and then ended up in these written forms.

有些篇章只是被我们粗略地认为出现于那个年代，其中包含的故事片段或律法材料或口头传统,其实也许能够追溯到更久远，所以这些很可能一开始是被口头传播,后来才用文字形式记载的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选