So you can read on an iPad or a touch-screen tablet, but the e-book readers are less expensive.

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So in the fourth stanza we as readers have no idea where we are or when it is the speaker of the poem imagines himself to be speaking, and it's at this point that something quite strange happens.

所以作为读者，对第四段我们不知道,自己在哪，诗的代言者在哪,什么时候想说话，而且就是在这时非常奇怪的事情发生了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We need to avoid the temptation, in many ways understandable as it might be, to airbrush or sanitize Aristotle, to make him seem more politically correct for modern readers.

我们要避开这个诱惑，虽然在很多方面看来，他可能在经过喷雾与消毒之后较易理解，亚里士多德,也许会对现代的读者变得比较政治正确。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Milton has dug up a gem from the pages of The Iliad, and this gem has something like a Medusa effect on the poem or perhaps on us as readers. Time almost seems to stop when we begin appreciating this image solely on aesthetic grounds.

弥尔顿从《伊利亚特》中挖出了一块瑰宝，这块瑰宝对于诗或我们读者起得作用,如同美杜莎一样，在我们只欣赏着,精美绝伦的地面上的场景时，时间仿佛停止。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The ostensible purpose of this sentence at this point, as I take it, in Milton's argument is to explain the importance of censorship; but surely this sentence has an entirely different effect on us as readers, a different effect than the syntax or the logic of this sentence may demand.

这句话表面上的目的，我认为，是在弥尔顿的论点里解释控制的重要性,但是这个句子却对读者产生了相反的作用，一个和这句话的句式逻辑的要求,不同的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选