Purification of the sanctuary was believed to be critical to the health and the well-being of the community.

圣所的净化被认为是,对整个群落的健康和幸福的一种批判。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I'm convinced that it's the reader's job to apply the same degree of critical scrutiny, a kind of Galilean critical scrutiny, to the image of Providence that will be elaborated, as you will see, at extraordinary length in Book Three of Paradise Lost.

我相信，把同等程度的细致的挑剔的观察,一种伽利略式的吹毛求疵的观察精神，运用到对将要被详细说明的天命的形象上去，是读者该做的事，你们往后会发现，卷三里洋洋洒洒写了很多。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Everyone agrees that the epic similes in Paradise Lost are different from the epic similes in any other epic poem, and everyone agrees - I'm just going to be presenting to you a sense of critical consensus here - everyone agrees that the similes are in some way absolutely essential to an understanding of this remarkable poem.

大家都同意中的诗意明喻,是和其他诗中的有所不同的，这是共识,-我将要向大家说明这一点,关于这点大家有决定性的共识,-大家都同意这些明喻某种程度上对于,理解这种异常卓越的诗是必然很重要的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选