Today's word,pan, takes us back to the days of the gold rush in California.

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Now, it's Milton's annotators who tell us that the word prevent means "to come before, to anticipate," and on some level it obviously means that and that goes without question.

弥尔顿的注解告诉我们阻止一词的含义,“在某人之前到达，预期“,从某种程度上说它就是那个意思，这毫无疑问。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It wants us to conceive of God as an uncontested god who through the power of his word or will creates the cosmos.

它希望我们构想一个毫无争议的上帝,他可以通过言语和意愿的力量创造宇宙。

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The sense of the sentence pushes us on to the next line, which alters our view of the meaning of the word "fruit:": "Of Man's First Disobedience and the Fruit / of that Forbidden Tree."

句意迫使我们看下一句，看了这句我们对“果子“的理解也发生变化：,“关于人类最初违反天神命令偷尝禁树的果子“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

- Now that's a slight lie-- or actually in these days of political debates, a slight misspeaking, a wonderful word-- -- it is technically correct. It is enough to allow us to write any program, but it's not enough to allow us to easily write any program.

现在还有点说谎的感觉,或者在这些强调政治辩论的日子中，可以说成是有些词不达意-,这是一个绝妙的形容词,在语义上是完全正确的，用这种语言我们可以编写任何程序,但是不能轻松地编写程序。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Now that's a tricky word for us because later in the semester we're going to be reading about something called the New Historicism, and the New Historicism actually has nothing to do with what Gadamer is ; objecting to in this form of historicism; so we will return to the New Historicism in that context.

这个词对我们来说比较具有迷惑性,因为这学期我们还会读到,新历史主义，新历史主义,与伽达默尔所反对的历史主义,没有任何关系;,那个时候我们再来讨论新历史主义。

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Milton is alerting us to the significance of the word "first" in the very first line, in this wonderful act of violating the laws of iambic pentameter.

弥尔顿在第一句就促使我们注意到“,“初/先“一词的重要性,不惜违背了抑扬格五音步诗的格律。

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I've certainly written code that has this problem, I've tried to use my own code that has this problem, and good to us, right, good hygiene, I'm going to use that word again here, of getting into the habit of writing defensive code up front, it's part of that collection of things that you ought to do is a great thing to do.

我举手了吧？,我当然写过犯这种错误的程序了,我也尝试过应用含有这种错误的代码，不错，好的卫生，我还是要用这个词,对我们有帮助，养成写防卫性,代码的好习惯，是你应该做的,一系列事情之一,也是我们日后要做的主要的事情。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选