So, that's present in all of these moments, but--equally present-- I want to get back to this sense of blankness.

所以它在这些时候都被呈现了出来，而且是同等地呈现了出来-,让我们回头看看,这种空无一物的感觉。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Everything that we had thought that Milton was telling us in the lyric present -- telling us directly, now -- suddenly gets shoved back into the narrative past: "thus sang the uncouth swain." The past tense is important there.

我们想过的弥尔顿在这首抒情诗里,直接告诉我们的所有事，现在，都突然在过去的旁白中一涌而现了：,“吟唱着粗鄙的青年人“，这里的过去时态很重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选