If we responded to all fires, he said, there would be no incentive to subscribe.

他说，如果我们见火就扑，那就没人会订我们的服务了。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Yeats imagines a kind of active arson in this poem.

叶芝在诗里想象了主动燃火。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

They throw all kinds of old books, great old books, onto the bonfire.

抛掉了所有旧书刊,将珍贵的古籍,统统抛入火里

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

As I said, in some context last time, how many Russian peasants died in the 1890s thinking, "Oh my god, if the Czar only knew that we're starving, how angry he would be with his officials."

就像我在上一讲提到的,有多少死于1890年代的俄国农民会想,"上帝啊,要是沙皇知道我们在挨饿就好了,他该对手下的官员发多大的火啊"

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选