Everything that we had thought that Milton was telling us in the lyric present -- telling us directly, now -- suddenly gets shoved back into the narrative past: "thus sang the uncouth swain." The past tense is important there.

我们想过的弥尔顿在这首抒情诗里,直接告诉我们的所有事，现在，都突然在过去的旁白中一涌而现了：,“吟唱着粗鄙的青年人“，这里的过去时态很重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So when you walk by in the middle of the day, everything is shining,

所以当你中午走过去的时候，所有的东西都在发光。

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And all of our musical experience tells us to listen to melody; melody's beautiful--that's what we want to hear, but now to get a sense of harmony we're going to listen to the bass.

所有我们过去听音乐的经历都告诉我们应该听旋律;,旋律是美妙的，这是我们想听的，但是现在为了了解和声我们应该听低音部。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Whether you measure it in terms of dollars of value added or in terms of returns, Yale has the best record among colleges and universities for the past two decades.

不管是从增值的角度,还是从收益率的角度衡量,过去20年里,耶鲁的表现是所有高校中最好的

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firm ownership of the... of songs as we've seen in the past.

公司所有权……过去我们见到的公司对歌曲的所有权也会不一样了。

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