These unseen lights which shone through them upon your faith were reflections of American efforts to live up to an idea. Those characters could have been no other than products of American tradition.

作为美国式理想的产物,这些难以绘状的光,其实就象征着,你们为了理想,去拼搏和开拓。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So in the fourth stanza we as readers have no idea where we are or when it is the speaker of the poem imagines himself to be speaking, and it's at this point that something quite strange happens.

所以作为读者，对第四段我们不知道,自己在哪，诗的代言者在哪,什么时候想说话，而且就是在这时非常奇怪的事情发生了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I've explained my embarrassment about using terms that I really have no absolutely no idea of the meaning of except that I'm told what the meaning of them is in the books that I am reading, which are the same books that you're reading.

我已经解释过了，用这些我完全不知道什么意思的词,真的很尴尬，除非有人告诉我他们是什么意思,就像这本书里说的那样,而我读的这本书，也就是你们现在也在读的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We don't know the intended recipient of this letter, and we actually have no idea whether Milton actually sent the letter; but a couple of drafts of this letter actually exist in Milton's own hand, and the letter is clearly a document that Milton had devoted some energy and some time to. We need to look at it.

我们不知道收件人是谁，我们也不清楚弥尔顿到底有没有寄这封信;,但这份信的草稿确实在弥尔顿那里，弥尔顿显然对这封信投入了不少,时间和精力，我们来看看。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选