It's a good sort of question that gets raised in such a problematic allusion: how do you set out to write an original poem within such a conventional genre like the epic?

对于这样一项有问题的引用,提出这些问题是很好的：,你怎么能开始写一篇标榜原创的诗作,却使用史诗这一传统的文体呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's a measure of Milton's ambition and his intellectual courage that enables him to set out to justify a God who can inflict upon his creatures such a seemingly arbitrary act of licensing.

就是弥尔顿的雄心和他智慧的勇气,让他去证实上帝是能强加给他创造的世界,这样看起来专横的控制的行为。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And that's what he set out to do.

这就是他准备做的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

I hadn't set out with a plan that I wanted to teach at some of the best universities in the country.

一开始，我并没有给自己制定目标,一定要在这些最好的大学执教。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

All right? And I'm going to say-- sort of set that stage here, so that-- It turns out that that's probably about the best we can do, or again ends at the length of the list.

我要说的是，这一阶段的集合,我们用最优的方法完成,还是取决于列表的长度，好的，还是回到了我的问题上了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But if you set out trying to implement this whole story line at once, if you set out trying to implement a cookie love story, it's just not gonna fly.

但是如果你一开始就想一次啃掉整块蛋糕,譬如你一开始就想,完成这个饼干人的爱情故事，你会发现这是行不通的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

There are all kinds of little abbreviations they make, ; and it suggests that language has to be wrenched out of its conventions; syntax can be set aside; language needs to move at the speed of experience and at the speed of ecstasy.

他们创造了各种缩写，好像语言必须得被扭曲得偏离原样;,语法可以被搁置一边，语言需要以体验和,忘形的速度移动。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The Greeks already had a century's long tradition of poetic education going back centuries to the time of Homer and Hesiod that set out certain exemplary models of heroic virtue and civic life.

希腊人已有世纪长的,诗学教育传统,可回溯到几个世纪前的荷马,与赫西奥德，他们为,英雄美德与公民生活确立了典范。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

You can't think that it really could make so much difference in the real world how prices and quantitie and welfare, and profit is going to work out depending on some thought experiment about how I think about my strategy set.

你们很难想象在现实世界里,价格 产量 福利和利润会因为,不同策略集合设定下的思想实验,而产生如此巨大的变化

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Milton tells himself to run, and naturally he would have to run fast indeed in order to arrive at a moment in time that had already occurred before he even set out!

弥尔顿告诉自己要跑起来了，而且他也确实不得不跑的很快,从而准时到达,他刚出发时就已经存在的目的地！

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's using its set of rules to deduce the value and print them back out.

计算器用自己的规则,去计算出结果来并返回。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He addresses instead the English language: "Hail native Language," Milton begins, and then he proceeds to set out in his heroic couplets of iambic pentameter a map for his future career as a famous poet.

反而写了英语这门语言：,开头写道，“为本土语言欢呼吧“,然后继续写他的五音部短长格对句,这是著名诗人对未来事业的规划。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This time, however, instead of setting quantities, instead of just deciding how much Coke and Pepsi to produce and spewing it out in the market and letting prices take care of themselves, this time the firms are going to set prices and let quantities take care of themselves.

这次不是规定产量,上次是确定,可口可乐和百事可乐的产量,运到市场上销售,并让价格自主的浮动,而这次,公司将要预先设定价格,并让产量自动调节

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选