He sees as really a temptation of the Serpent to remove him from his people and the meaning of his people's history.

其实，他面临的是，撒旦的诱惑,迷惑他脱离他的族群,脱离族群的历史。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

To know history, put on the god's knowledge with his power, would be to have access to history's meaning, and therefore to be more than merely subject to it, subject to its capricious and violating forces.

懂得历史，把上帝之智与力结合，才能接近历史的真实意义，否则只是受过历史的影响而已，被动无力地承受着历史的影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So I went back to the great creator raising his plastic arm and suggested that, well, maybe after all there might be some good way of complicating the meaning of Akenside by suggesting that the modern, anachronistic meaning of "plastic" would be relevant to the sense of the poem.

所以我回想了一下,当这位伟大的创造家抬起他的塑料手臂，说，也许总有办法,能让Akenside的意思更复杂,有一个很好的例子就是,“plastic“一词古今意思的差别“,和诗歌的意境有关。

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