There are, of course, dozens of figures taken from the texts of classical mythology who are alluded to throughout the first two books, but invariably they appear, just as Tantalus does in this very passage, within the context of a simile.

当然，这部作品有很多人物是取材自,经典神话故事，他们是用来表达隐喻的,贯穿着前两册书，他们始终出现，就像丹达罗斯在这一诗篇中，给予诗内容一种喻示。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I studied the Paulson proposal carefully, since I'm writing a New York Times column about it which will appear Sunday Reading the various commentaries about the proposal I had the impression that not many of them are very--thinking very deeply about it.

在我写这个星期天将发行的,纽约时报的金融专栏之前,我曾认真研读了鲍尔森的改革计划,在我读过各种各样关于改革计划的评论之后,我深深地感觉到不是每一个人,都能深刻的意识到改革的利弊的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So, we approached this machine here, the photograph is a little blurry, but it was very clear to us but if you zoom in on the screen and apologies for the reflections, again, this was just taken with my cell phone, you see what appear to be three huge buttons and at the top it said something like have a Charlie Card, which may very well apply to a lot of locals.

所以，我们走近这个机器，这个照片有点模糊，但对于我们来说是清楚地,如果我把它在屏幕上放大，我对这个影像感到抱歉,但是，这是用我的手机拍的,你们可以看到这里上面有三个很大的按钮,写了一些关于Charlie卡片的东西，对本地人来说是相当熟悉的。

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