过去她为我工作，而现在我们的地位对调了。

She used to work for me, but our situations are now reversed.

《牛津词典》

许多雄鸟的鲜艳羽毛被认为是为吸引雌鸟而进化来的。

The bright plumage of many male birds was thought to have evolved to attract females.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

路易斯•阿姆斯特朗把爵士乐简单定义为“我为了谋生而玩的东西。”

Louis Armstrong defined jazz pithily as "what I play for a living."

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

So this is Virgil: "When I was fain to sing of kings and battles, the Cynthian god" -that's Phoebus Apollo -- "plucked my ear and warned me."

这就是维吉尔所写的：“我欣然乐意着笔于国王与战争“,“而辛西亚那之神“,即为阿波罗-“在我耳边低声警告我“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's as though you try-- try getting upset about the fact that two plus two equals four.

这就像你在尝试-,为二加二等于四而烦恼。

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Anything he writes is going to be forced, compelled - and with his forced fingers rude he violates the formal prosodic, the metrical, scheme of his elegy at its very opening.

他写什么都是被迫的，不得已而为之的,-用他这粗鲁的手指，他在这悼亡诗的一开头，就没能遵守写诗的韵律规范。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选