It's a persistent problem partly because it always raises these issues of fictionality versus truthfulness, of honesty versus embellishment.

这是个持久的问题,原因是它一直在质疑虚构性和真实性的关系，还有诚实与修饰的关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Her statement points to a persistent worry, and it's a worry that exists even now in the twentieth century about the nature of Milton's power.

她的陈述不断透露着忧虑，这种忧虑一直持续到现在20世纪,关于弥尔顿之力量的本性的忧虑。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's going to be cancelled next year. I won't get my money back.' Loans must be made even if the debt will be cancelled, for the simple reason that the problem of poverty is a terrible and persistent problem.

因为在来年贷款会被解除，他们就收不回自己的钱了,即使是债务会被免除，人们也必须给人借贷，这仅仅,是因为贫困是一个长久存在的可怕问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

This might be a persistent vegetative state with no possibility of turning it on, even in principle.

这可能是个持续性植物状态,即便原则上，都没有可能重启开关。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I'm narrowing it down. It's getting a little silly but you know I'm going to really be persistent and just follow the rules here of binary search, rather than jumping to conclusions.

按照二分法的规则来做的,而不是直接得出某种结论,很明显这儿我的目的是什么？,显示这两个相同的东西。

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This is impressive: he dropped out of both Dartmouth and Harvard, and he did so to take laboring jobs, each time enacting a conflict between intellectual life and manual labor that would be a persistent and central theme of his poetry.

令人印象深刻的是，他从,达特茅斯学院和哈佛大学都辍学了,来劳作，每一次都在,脑力劳动和体力劳动间发生矛盾,这也是他的诗歌的核心主题。

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One of the texts of de Man -also in the book called Allegories of Reading where you'll find also a version of the essay "Semiology and Rhetoric" one of the essays that those who had actually read de Man actually argued about in a persistent fashion is called "The Purloined Ribbon."

德曼的一篇文章,同样在《阅读的寓言》这本书中能找到,在这本书中还能找到“符号学与修辞“的一个版本“,这是一篇读过德曼的人都会,不停争论的文章，它叫“偷窃的缎带“

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I don't think that the critics who see here an image of castration are just imagining it, because there is such a weird and such a persistent interest in the human body, and especially in the poet's body, throughout this poem - Milton's focus on the body, on the entire realm of the corporeal.

有评论家认为弥尔顿在这里是暗喻阉割不是,凭空想象出来的，因为贯穿《利西达斯》整首诗,都有一种奇怪的一直都存在的对于人体，尤其是对这诗人的身体的兴趣,-弥尔顿对人体，对整个物质世界的关注。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There we are in Phase D,in something like, perhaps,persistent vegetative state.

这就是D阶段，可以叫做，持续植物人状态。

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