The choice is a terrifying one of no friendship and "boughten friendship," which really isn't friendship at all.

这个选择是可怕的,是不要友谊还是根本不能算是友谊的“,“买来的友谊“

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He describes for us his own power that somehow manages to survive even a terrifying and humiliating defeat like the one he's just experienced.

他向我们描述了他的力量--在经历了这样一次,可怕的令人羞辱的失败之后,他还是顽强的生存下来了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I used to read it, but I could never get through it--terrifying.

我从前有读到这些,但我永远也读不下去,太残忍了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Now one of the entries in Milton's commonplace book that touches on the subject of chastity strikes me as a particularly charged one for its terrifying image of violence.

在弥尔顿那本书中有一个条目,涉及到贞洁的话题,深深震撼了我,它感情十分强烈，还有暴力成分。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Alpheus is also the god of erotic pastoral poetry, it turns out, and this god is literally gone underground during the terrifying appearance of Saint Peter.

阿尔甫斯也是描写爱欲的诗歌之神，从诗句上来看，这位神灵在圣彼得面前,悄无声息的隐匿了踪影。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So Saint Peter concludes with -- it goes on, and he concludes with a couplet that is as terrifying in its threat of finality as it is for me utterly baffling in its significance.

因此圣彼得以一句如同这首诗结尾的威胁般,可怕的对句作了总结,我很难读出这句话的重要性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The image of men, and it's a grotesque image, of men rifling the bowels of their mother earth for treasures better hid - this is a disgusting and terrifying image of a lot of things.

人的形象是十分丑陋的，他们深深切入土地母亲以寻找被埋藏的宝藏,很多东西的形象是令人恶心的且十分恐怖的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And he describes it and it's terrifying.

他记述了这一可怕的场景

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Without question he's the most terrifying of all of the mourners, and he gives an angry, powerful, vitriolic speech about the terrible state of England - the terrible state of the Church of England and, as a consequence, of the terrible state of England in 1637.

毫无疑问他是所有送葬者中最可怕的，他做了一番愤怒，有力，刻薄的讲话,大谈英格兰的糟糕状况,-1637年间英格兰教堂的糟糕状况，及由此产生的英格兰的糟糕状况。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选