An ear and an appetite for these sounds of sense is the first qualification of a writer, be it of prose or verse.

这些感性的声音的耳朵和胃口,是作家最基本的素质，不论是写散文还是诗歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Rebecca West, a contemporary and an acquaintance of hers who wrote a good many novels, wrote one in particular called The Return of the Soldier, the protagonist of which is also a traumatized war victim.

作者的一个朋友同时也是当代作家的丽贝卡，韦斯特,她写过很多不错的小说，其中比较有名的一本是《军士返乡》,主人公就是一个战争创伤患者。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We looked at its relation to the new career that John Milton ended up assuming in the late 1630s: this new career as a polemical writer of political prose.

我们研究了它与17世纪30年代末,弥尔顿最终以幻想告终的新事业：,这个写政治散文的宣传性作家的新事业。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He was an author, a lawyer, then Supreme Court Justice, but he wrote a book in 1914 called Other People's Money and it was very influential.

他是一位作家,一位律师,也当过大法官,他在1914年写了本书叫做《抢钱至尊》,这本书非常具有影响力

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And then lastly there's Allan Gurganus, that wonderful Modern Southern writer who wrote that book called The Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All, you know that bizarre it's a wonderful read.

最后我们要讲下艾伦·古尔加努斯,一位杰出的当代南方作家,他写了本书叫做,《往日情怀》,名字听起来很古怪,却是一本很值得一看的书

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Reference he makes to a comic poet yes a comic poet an unequivocal reference to the playwright Aristophanes whose name I have put up on the board.

他提及一名喜剧诗人，没错,一名喜剧诗人，且是毫不含糊的,提及喜剧作家亚里斯多芬尼斯,我也有把他的名字写在黑板上。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

There's a short story by the science fiction writer Orson Scott Card, where the basic point of the story is that of all the life forms in the universe, we, here on Earth, are the only ones that are mortal.

科幻作家Orson，Scott，Card写了一个短故事，该故事的主旨是,在宇宙的所有生命形式中，我们，在地球上是唯一终有一死的生命。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选