Eliot's speaking of a spiritual and imaginative state.

他谈到了一种精神和虚幻的状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

One of the sentences that I'll repeat throughout the class is that happiness is much more contingent on our state of mind than our status or the state of our bank account.

有一句话我会在课程中经常引用,快乐由我们的精神状态而定，而不是社会地位或银行存款。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Music gets us to do particular kinds of things, gets us to feel particular kinds of ways, and I think these two pieces by the same composer get-- cause--us to feel very, very different, cause a different mood, a different psychological state, to come over us.

音乐赋予我们别样的行为方式,让我们通过别样的途径来感受,还有我觉得这两首来自同一个作者的乐曲,给予我们截然不同的感受,两种截然不同的情绪,两种截然不同的精神状态,笼罩着我们

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