This waves crashing over me and looking up and see this incredible...suddenly I just felt like I disappeared at that very moment.

海浪向我涌来，抬头便看到,这难以置信的落日，我突然感到,就在那一刻，我消失了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Everything that we had thought that Milton was telling us in the lyric present -- telling us directly, now -- suddenly gets shoved back into the narrative past: "thus sang the uncouth swain." The past tense is important there.

我们想过的弥尔顿在这首抒情诗里,直接告诉我们的所有事，现在，都突然在过去的旁白中一涌而现了：,“吟唱着粗鄙的青年人“，这里的过去时态很重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There's a sense that in this memory the poet somehow saw the name-- presumably, I suppose, saw it on a signboard in the station, as you roll into the station and you see where you are.

在这种记忆中诗人不知怎么地-,我猜想他在看这个题目的时候，是在火车站的布告板上看到的，当你们涌进火车站看自己在哪的时候。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And, to be sure, there were lots of crowds in Paris were the inevitable crowds who shouted for war, which was sort of odd because Paris was increasingly a leftwing city, because the vast majority of the population of Paris were ordinary people,were workers, more about that another time when I talk about Paris.

很多巴黎民众涌上街头,个个嚷着要上战场,而这对巴黎这座逐渐左倾的城市有些令人惊奇,因为这座城市的多数人,都是平民和工人,关于这点我会在讲到巴黎时再和大家讨论

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

So here in the G Minor Symphony we feel as--oh, it's so full of tension, angst,anxiety, perhaps passion, it's driving somewhere, and one of the things that's driving it is its accelerating rate of harmonic change.

在G小调交响曲里我们能感觉到，哦，音乐中充满了紧张，揪心，焦虑，甚至激情，这些感情正在向某个方向涌去，吸引它们的力量之一就是不断加速的和声变化率。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选