And instead of this continual anticipation of writing something great, Milton's able to look back and find closure in something already written.

他并没有继续着写一些伟大的作品，而是追溯了过去，并在已完成的作品中寻找着终结。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's great for showing that you've already expressed something and you want to emphasize that point to you are conversant.

在表明你已经表达过某个观点并且想要再次强调的时候，这个句型非常有用。

That's what课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

We did that during the Great Depression, when it suddenly seemed like we really needed to do something.

是在大萧条时期开始实行的，因为当时我们突然发现,确实该做点什么了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

How can Milton know that he was really and truly called by God to be a great poet until he writes something - it's not a bad question - until he has something actually to show for his talent?

弥尔顿怎么知道他是不是真的被,上帝选中了去做一个伟大的诗人,除非他真的创作出点儿什么--这是一个不坏的问题,-直到他真有可以证明自己才能的作品？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And unless, you know, you've been hired to do Pirandello's Six Characters In Search Of An Author, this is not a great thing, because you get something that is really confusing.

可能一点关系也没有,要是你拍的是皮兰德娄的荒诞名剧,《六个找寻作家的角色》,那可能是件好事,因为你得到的是一个足够混乱的结果。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Aristotle tells us he is slow to act unless something of great importance is at stake.

亚里士多德告诉我们,此类人的行动缓慢。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

There are different ways of playing the game, and some of us find great pride in finding the most simple way to understand something.

条条大路通罗马,当找到简单的方法来理解问题时,我们会很有成就感

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

This isn't scuba diving now off the Great Barrier Reef, or something like that.

不是现在大堡礁海岸边的潜水运动,或者其他类似的活动

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The trouble is, you just don't know when that explosion took place, and since there are several periods in this general area that we're talking about now, in which something big happened, some great change takes place, it turns out different people want to have their explosion at different times.

问题是,你不了解火山爆发的,确切时间以及这种爆发,在这个区域又延续了很多个时期,这些时期发生了许多重大事件和重大变化,结果就是不同人对,火山爆发的时间推测各不相同

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In one of the greatest books ever written on the South, by a Southerner, in particular Wilbur Cash's great classic in 1940 called The Mind of the South, he did something similar to Jefferson, although he's focusing only on Southerners here.

在所有由南方人撰写,关于南方的伟大作品中,韦尔伯·卡什1940年的一本堪称经典,在这本叫做《南方的精神》的书中,他如杰斐逊一般对南方人做了描述,尽管这本书中他仅描述了南方人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Whatever you think those are. Here, you might imagine different people disagreeing about-- oh, but throw in something--but if what you want to do is write the great American novel, then you've got the experience of staying up late at night not knowing how to make the plot work out, crushing pieces of paper and throwing them away.

你能想到的都在里面，可能有人不同意-,插入某某东西，比如你想,创作最伟大的美国小说，于是你获得熬夜的体验,纠结于如何构建情节，撕碎稿纸，扔在一边。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

so that's great that a lot of people have enough time to be in something that's not math or science related.

很多人投入了时间，来做与数学或科学无关的事情，这真的太好了。

积极参与俱乐部活动 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

That's also out of the United Nations, something that had great support from Eleanor Roosevelt.

也是由联合国发表的，得到了埃莉诺，罗斯福的大力支持。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

This is great when you want to express regret for something that you perhaps did not do.

当你想表达对一些过去没做成的事情感到后悔时，你可以使用这个句型。

I should have 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I'd better is a great pattern to use in sentences when you're talking about something that you'd like to do.

在谈论你很乐意做某事时，你可以使用“I'd better”句型。

I'd better 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

When you talk about something like the Shakespeare canon, the canon of Shakespeare or the canon of great Western Literature that's actually using the term in a bit of an expanded sense.

当你谈到莎士比亚经典，或者伟大西方文学的经典时,那是该词的广义用法。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So this advertisement tells you that the great classic of modernism is something you stride into like a man, but you don't have to be a particularly extraordinary man to do so.

这广告告诉你们现代主义的伟大经典,在于让你们如男人一样勇敢地投入阅读，但你不一定非得成为特别出众的人来阅读。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选