Milton's treading an extraordinarily fine line between the tremendous beauty of this image, on the one hand, and its potential impiety or just grotesquery on the other.

弥尔顿踩到了一条极其微妙的分界线上,这幅景象一方面极具美感，另一方面却可能是对上帝不恭甚至荒诞的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

At any rate, the reader must regard it as creative writing rather than simply a record of life."

无论从哪一层面来看，把它当作是极具创想的作品,而不单单是生活的记录“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Hobbes wrote, "I am at the point of believing that my labors will be " as useless as the commonwealth of Plato."

贺伯斯写到，“我在此要相信,我的努力将如同,柏拉图的国家一样不具实用“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

All right,I've got to remind you though, none of the options here are all that attractive.

好了，我必须提醒各位，这里的所有可能性都不具吸引力。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Saying he's in New York but not Michigan doesn't seem very attractive.

说他在纽约而不在密西根，似乎也不具吸引力。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Philia Civic friendship civic philia is in other words not without a strong element of what might be thought of as sibling rivalry in which each citizen strives to outdo the others for the sake of the civic good.

公民友情，或说公民,并非不具一般所认为的,手足竞争等强烈元素,即每位公民都努力,要胜过其它人，以谋求城市的利益。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选