This is actually a recurrent figure in the early poems, isn't it wonderful that there's a term for being turned to marble?

这事实上是在早期诗歌多次出现的一个形象，有一个术语形容变成石头，是不是很美妙？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And so--like the chainlet--it takes that stone-like distillation of life, turning rain to stone, turning life to the representation by your tormentor.

就像那条链子，它提取了,生命中如磐石般不朽的精华，将雨水变成石头，将生命变成,折磨你的人笔下的画像。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Thou does make us Marble with too much conceiving," Milton had told Shakespeare in that poem.

你把我们变成了一个有太多设想的石头“,弥尔顿在这首诗中这样告诉莎士比亚。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, what you see is children dead, children turned to stone, and this is the dark side of that fairy tale quality that we see in other parts of the novel that's been coming back in our lectures.

那么，你们读到的是死去的孩子，变成石头的孩子，着就是,童话般的小说的,其它部分的阴暗面,它正渐渐成为我们课程的主题。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

These are children turned to stone.

这些是变成石头的孩子。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Medusa can turn men into stone.

美杜莎可以把人变成石头。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选