And finally at lines 108 through 131, we have Saint Peter, he of the pearly gates. Peter bursts onto the scene.

最后108到131行，圣彼得出现了，他掌管珍珠之门，彼得的出现很突兀。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I was neither at the hot gates Nor fought in the warm rain Nor knee deep in the salt marsh, heaving a cutlass, Bitten by flies, fought.

我未曾到过火热的城门,也未曾在暖雨中作战,更未曾在没膝的盐沼里挥舞弯刀，挨着飞蝇的叮咬，苦战。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There you are at the pearly gates and you look back on your life and you could, in principle, add up all the pleasures, add up all the pains, subtract the pains from the pleasures and ask yourself, "How good a life did I have?

当你站在天堂门口回顾一生时,你可以，在原则上，累加所有快乐，累加所有痛苦，从快乐中减去痛苦然后问自己，“我的一生到底有多好？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Someone figured out at the median contribution that got you invited to stay a night in the Lincoln bedroom, Bill Gates could afford to stay in the Lincoln bedroom every night for the next sixty six thousand years.

有人算出来,按能受邀在林肯卧室留宿一夜,所需捐款额的中位数计算，比尔·盖茨完全付得起在林肯卧室,住上6万6千年。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选