I have to read these lines again: "And when they list, their lean and flashy songs grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw."

我需要再读一遍这些句子：,“当他们列举出他们贫瘠而浮华的歌颂时“,亦显示出卑鄙无能的低劣之声“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Land being the cultivated manicured place that provides, whatever, the harvest, things like that while wilderness was some place that was barren, it does not produce fruit.

土地被人们开垦，培育,为人们提供丰收的果实,荒野却是贫瘠的，不会产生果实。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Yet despite the false starts, and the trials, and the years of famine, and the childlessness, and the infertility, the seed of Abraham survives, and the promise is reiterated: "I will go down myself with you to Egypt, and I myself will also bring you back."

但尽管有错误的开始，试验和多年饥荒，断子绝孙和贫瘠，亚伯拉罕的子孙还是得以幸免，许诺被重新申明：,“我要和你同下埃及去，也必定带你上来“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选