They're manacles that confine the otherwise vulnerable and tender flesh of the body of the poem.

押韵是镣铐，禁锢着诗歌本来就,脆弱柔软的血肉之躯。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So naturally he looks out the window to see how the time is going and this is what he says: Come, seeling Night,Skarfe up the tender Eye of pitiful DayAnd with thy bloodie and invisible HandCancel and teare to pieces that great BondThat keeps me pale!

所以自然地他看向窗外的天色,他说道：,快来吧，黑夜，遮住白天的眼睛，…,用你无形的沾满鲜血的双手,将束缚我们的身体撕成碎片！

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Milton's pushing here toward a fantasy of physical invulnerability imagining an alternative -- this is science fiction an alternative model of bodily configuration that would render impossible the all-too-easy quenching of the tender eyeballs.

弥尔顿在这幻想着人的身体可以刀枪不入,他在想象一个另类的-这只是科幻,他在想象一个另类的身体构造模型,这样脆弱的眼球,就不会轻易受到伤害。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But abruptly, fiendishly, the tender pattern of nudity I had adored would be transformed into the disgusting lamp-lit bare arm of a man in his underclothes reading his paper by the open window in the hot, damp, hopeless summer night.

然而突然，糟糕得很，我崇拜的那副美好的裸体,投入了台灯下一双男人赤膊的肩膀，他穿着内衣裤,读着报纸，靠在敞开的窗边，沉浸在,炎热，潮湿，绝望的夏夜里。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

est-ce pas How long ago it seemed and childish! Yet tender too, n'est-ce pas?

看来多么遥远和幼稚啊，然而又是含情脉脉的，n’

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选