It has to be said that the young Milton lost a lot of sleep over this passage.

必须说的是,年轻的弥尔顿为了这些文章放弃了很多睡眠。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

A lot of times they have lost their job, or have become injured or something, so they can't work anymore.

大多数情况下，他们可能是失业了，或者受伤了等等原因导致他们无法继续工作。

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Indeed. The rumor has it that there were poker games that my dad lost a lot of money to professor Katz.

是的，据说人们还在那里打扑克,我爸就输给Katz教授很多钱。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

That's because to suggest -- just think of it - to suggest that Milton is relying on his memory as he composes so allusively and so dependently, in a lot of ways, so much of Paradise Lost - to say that is simply to say that the poem has been generated by Milton and not by God.

让我们来设想一下其中的原因吧,假设弥尔顿全靠着他的记忆,正如他隐晦而连续地在《失乐园》中引经据典，并将这些以多种方式组合，这在《失乐园》中随处可见,以至于人们可以简单地说这部诗,是出自弥尔顿而非上帝的创作。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选