Milton opens up a shady space for something approaching a kind of moral relativism where black and white theological categories simply don't apply.

弥尔顿为接近道德上的相对主义,即黑和白之间的区分已经无法简单的适用,开创了先河。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But of course this is a poor, black child growing up in the South, and his expectations, what his mind can imagine, is always going to be greater than what the world can deliver.

但要记得，这个黑人穷孩子是在南方长大的，他的期待，他想象的东西，总好过现实。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So, if you use a black lamp or something and you excite something up to a higher energy level and then it relaxes back down to its lower energy state, it's going to emit a new wavelength of light, which is going to be visible to you.

如果你用一个紫外灯或别的,东西把某种分子激发到,更高的能级，然后它会掉回,到低能级，它就会释放,一个新的波长的光,这个光是可见的。

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So, you end up going through life assuming that there are no black swans.

于是你从生活中得出结论,黑色的天鹅是不存在的

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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again.

我真想去爬白桦树，沿着雪白的树干，爬上乌黑的树枝，爬向那天心，直到树身再支撑不住，树梢碰着地，把我放下来。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Yes, this is a book about the privations of growing up in the South poor and black, but it is very much, very consciously, a book about the development of someone who attends to language.

书的着重点的确是,记述在南方成长的穷孩子，但作者刻意地描述了，一个关注语言人的成长经历。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选