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

Now this allusion here in this verse epistle to his father is to a passage from the book of Revelation.

在这封给他父亲信里的诗中所含的暗示,是从《启示录》中的一段话来的。

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

His father, who was a local pastor from the southwest of England, sent him to Oxford, although he went at the age of 14.

他的父亲来自英格兰西南部,是一个当地牧师，把他送进了牛津，尽管他进大学时只有14岁。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And he finally does ascertain that Apollo is angry with the Greeks because Agamemnon took a maiden from her father, and that father was a priest of Apollo.

占卜的结果是,阿波罗对希腊人发怒了,因为阿伽门农抢了自己父亲的女仆,而他父亲是阿波罗的大祭司

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But the question is, in my present circumstances, with evil on my hands, entailed from my father, would the general interest of the slaves and community at large, with reference to the slaves, be promoted best by emancipation?

但问题是,在我目前的情况下,我已犯下如此罪行,我延续了父辈的罪恶,对于奴隶的问题,解放是否能够使,他们和全社会的整体利益得到提升呢

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

So poor Lily is also an orphan, at least in the emotional sense, if not in actual reality. Her father, of course, had run off from her mother right after she had gotten pregnant, and then I suppose he came back.

可怜的莉莉也是个孤儿，至少从感情的角度上看是,如果你认为在现实情况不是，她的父亲，当然，在她母亲怀孕后,就开溜了，然后我猜测他又回来了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选