The very idea that a figure so virtuous could have been dealt such a tragic and early death strikes Milton, or Milton's speaker here, as the rankest injustice.

这么贞洁的一个人竟然会这么早,就如此悲惨的死去，这极端不公平使弥尔顿，或者是诗中的讲述者，震惊。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It was a tragic--It was crushed by the weights of the electrodes.

是个悲剧,被电极的重量给压死了

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It's a tragic circumstance but better to kill one so that five can live, is that the reason most of you had, those of you who would turn? Yes?

虽然是悲剧,但牺牲一人保全五人依然是更正确的选择，这就是大多数人选择把电车开上侧轨的理由吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

It's a genuinely tragic sort of story in his case.

这对于他来说是个真悲剧啊

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But the Greek tragic view does not take either of these routes, which I regard as a relatively easy escape from the problem compared to the way the Greeks got stuck.

但希腊的悲剧意识对这两种套路都不接受,在我看,相对而言,与其困扰于此,古希腊人更愿意逃避这个问题

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