It's a set of images that couldn't be more foreign or more alien to the prophetic mode of the Old Testament prophets.

这是一组不能再背离旧约先知的形象的,一组比喻了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

2 2 I can move 9 down, I can move 12 down, I can move 2 down, God and I can cheat by entering God mode and if I hit God and hit Enter well now the problem set solves itself for me.

我可以将9移下来，移动，而且我也可以输入无敌模式，如果我输入,并回车，然后此问题将会自动开始，解决。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And they got in this habit of, every time they had a bright, happy text, they'd set this in one kind of mode or key-- a major mode--and every time they had a sad one, they'd set it in minor.

于是人们养成了这样的习惯,每当人们书写欢乐,愉悦的歌词时,他们就设定一个调式或调性,即大调,每当人们书写忧伤的歌词时,他们就定为小调

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选