He's a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas, and the text seems almost to suggest that Milton can't do without his own teacher, Edmund Spenser.

他是一位比苏格拉底和阿奎那更好的良师，这些文章几乎暗示了弥尔顿,没有老师埃蒙德·斯潘塞则不能做到弃绝那些诱惑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

However evil those books are in and of themselves, we have to read them so that we might see and know and yet abstain.

但是邪恶也藏在这些书中，我们不得不读它们以便能看到并了解它们然后将之弃绝。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

What kind of citizen is it, is he or she who abstains from, maybe even rejects, the harsh necessities, ? requirements of political life?

哪种公民，会弃绝，甚至拒绝这种严苛的必需性，拒绝这种政治生活的需求？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选