Now, this is a form of competitiveness with which we are all familiar.

这就是竞争,我们已经很熟悉了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I suggest that we can hear echoes of that same youthful competitiveness in Milton's first major poem in these opening lines, in the beginning of the great epic of Milton's maturity.

在失乐园的开头几句,在弥尔顿成熟后所写的这首伟大史诗的开头，我们还可以看到这同样的他年轻时的雄心。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选