But those "nobodies" - long lost to history - are about to be recognized for their contributions to American literature with the publication of "Maid as Muse: How Servants Changed Emily Dickinson's Life and Language."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

They're too important simply to have been read once: Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse?

它们太重要了，不能只读一遍：,哎！，这有何意义,整日做着简单无趣的牧羊人的营生，缪斯如此无情还要对其冥思苦想？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It would appear that Milton has stopped addressing the muse, the Heavenly Muse, and that he has begun addressing himself although that's unclear.

它所呈现的是弥尔顿已经不再跟缪斯讲话了，天国的缪斯，他已经开始跟自己讲话了,尽管这不太确定。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Confirming Mister Muse's true age is difficult because birth documents are rare in Somalia.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

If Milton's true muse, or so he hopes or so he wants us to believe, has a Christian origin, then this counter-muse is unquestionably classical.

如果弥尔顿他望或想要我们相信，他真正的缪斯女神，有一个基督教的原型，那么这位与缪斯女神相对的人物毫无疑问是经典的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Other researchers praised Muse Opiang's report.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

You could think of Medusa as Milton's counter-muse.

你可以把美杜莎看作是弥尔顿最重要的缪斯女神。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

U.S.prosecutors say Muse is the sole survivor of a hijacking attempt on a U.S.-flagged ship off the coast of Somalia on April 8.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

As presumptuous as that desire is, to come before Homer or to come before Virgil, it's by no means the final sense, I think, of Milton's ambitious drive to be first. Milton invokes the same heavenly muse here who inspired Moses, that shepherd.

尽管想要先于荷马或维吉尔的雄心,很冒失，这却绝不是弥尔顿想要做第一，的壮志的终点，他在这里所写的,缪斯正是那个启示了牧羊人摩西的缪斯。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Determining Muse's true age is difficult because birth certificates are rare in Somalia,a country which has not had a functioning government for nearly two decades.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22