Look what happens to Galileo, who was lucky enough not to have been burn on the stake by his friend, the pope.

看看伽利略的遭遇吧,他足够幸运,没有被他的教皇朋友绑在火刑柱上烧死

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And the poem goes on, and this is the tone of a poem. It's a poem of crisis, a poem of a kind of hollow speaker, someone who emerges as, more or less, buried alive. And this is supposed to reflect both personal crisis and a historical crisis.

然后这首诗继续娓娓道来，这就是诗歌的韵律,这是首关于危机的诗，关于一个有点言之无物的叙述者,最后活活烧死的诗，这恰好反映了,个人和历史的危机。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He was up on a pyre, and he was going to be burned when he remembered Solon, the Greek, who had come to him and warned him about the vain glory, and he said,oh Solon, oh Solon.

他在火葬柴堆上,在即将被烧死之时想到梭伦,这个希腊人曾警告过他,这只是虚荣而已,他感叹着,哎,梭伦,哎,梭伦

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