I composed pastiches: : "Fraulein von Kulp may turn her hand upon the door. I will not follow her.

歪歪扭扭的小品文，我还创作模仿他人的打油诗：,冯·库尔普小姐，或许会转身将手放在门上我，不会跟随她。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So Milton implies to Diodati that he isn't yet up to the task of epic, but as he describes the Nativity Ode that he's just written, it's almost as if he considers it something of a mini-epic.

所以弥尔顿暗示迪奥达蒂自己还不能完成创作史诗的任务，但他提到了他刚写完的《圣诞清晨歌》,好像这就是一篇迷你史诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

What is really significant -I created this plot just a couple of years, in 2005.

其重大意义在与,我创作的这部分内容,还没过几年,是在2005年写的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Wouldn't a later writer have cleaned up this ancestral record if this were in fact something composed at a later period? Also, he notes that the representation of inter-ethnic relationships in the patriarchal stories does not accord with the reality of a later period.

后世的作者难道不会把祖先不光彩的记录抹去吗,如果事实上这故事是后来创作的话？同时，他还提出，宗族故事中所展示的种族间关系,与后世的现实是不相一致的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He isn't yet able or he hasn't yet produced epic speech.

他还不能或没有创作出什么史诗语言。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选