He anticipated this power much as his father, a reasonably well-to-do banker, might have anticipated long-term earnings from a particularly risky business venture.

他预测到他的力量，正如他的父亲，一个相当富有的银行家，能够预测到从一笔风险高的生意中,能获得多少长期利益一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The woman's objection, as the poem unfolds, is summed up by his choice, the father's choice, to bury the child himself.

这首诗里揭示的这个女人的反对，从这个父亲的选择中就可以总结出，亲自埋葬这个孩子。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He's engaging his father in to a contractual situation just as he will engage the entire English people in The Reason of Church Government.

他在使他的父亲加入这个合同,就像他使整个英国国民加入一样,我们在《教会政府的原因》里已经看到过。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's as if Richard takes those words, and he makes them his own, takes them from his father and gains a different kind of strength from them, a strength he can then use to get back at his father.

理查按父亲说的做了，就如同把父亲说的，复制于他的大脑中一样,似乎从中获得了一种，不同寻常的报复方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He won't listen;he bowls ahead, and he discovers in the process the terrible,terrible truth, which is that by accident,by coincidence, not by intent that as a young man he killed his father and subsequently married his mother.

他充耳不闻,执迷不悟,随后他在不经意间,发现了极其可怕的事实,或是因为事故,或是因为巧合,总之绝不是故意的,他年少时曾经弑父,随即娶了自己的母亲

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In the poem that we looked at last time that was the poem Ad Patrem that Milton had addressed to his father Milton was attempting, as you remember, to justify to his father his own interest in becoming a poet.

上节课我们读的诗《Ad，Patrem》,是弥尔顿写给他父亲的,正如你们所记得的，弥尔顿正尝试着向父亲证明自己成为诗人的潜力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选