It's a disillusioned and self-consciously ironic promise of salvation, of wholeness.

这是一种幻想破灭的，不自然的，讽刺的,拯救和完整的希望。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

All of Milton's expectations that England might actually be transformed, and they were glorious expectations, into something like a Puritan utopia or even a Puritan paradise -- all of that had been destroyed.

弥尔顿壮丽的期望，将英格兰转变成一个，清教徒乌托邦，甚至是清教徒天堂的期望,统统破灭了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We were lucky to raise the first round of money before the Internet bubble burst.

幸运的是，我们在泡沫破灭之前,完成了第一轮融资。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

For some of you it may be difficult I know that and I want you to rest assured that no one in this course wishes to undermine or malign religious faith any more than they wish to promote or proselytize for religious faith.

我知道对你们中的另一些人来说这门课会有困难,不过我想要你们放心,这门课上没有人想要破灭和诋毁宗教信仰,同样也没人想要劝诱他人信教。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It's not considered good form to say, I think we're about to have a crisis of confidence and the whole house of cards is going to collapse.

说我认为我们即将有个信心危机，或者所有计划都将破灭,是不明智的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

First is, as you know, we started at the height of Internet bubble.

总所周知的是，公司于互联网泡沫破灭时起步。

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What happened was, six months later, Internet bubble burst.

恰恰在六个月之后，互联网泡沫破灭了。

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