He was honored for his art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new kinds of characters.

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Historically, it has not been pleasure or wit or beauty that has been associated with the experience of reading Milton.

一直以来，人们阅读米尔顿作品的时候,感受到的都不是愉悦，机智，或者美好。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Your wit, sir, is as thick as Tewkesbury Mustard,"

你的智慧，先生，像图克斯伯里芥末一样让人想流泪。”

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The poet, he says, ranges freely within the zodiac of his own wit.

他说，诗人可以凭借智慧随意在黄道十二宫中漫游。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Gives you a little sense of Hobbes' spirit, his humor, the wry wit that becomes apparent on almost every page of this book, but you have to be a careful reader.

这体现了一部分霍布斯的精神，他的幽默感，他的诙谐风趣,而这些也明显体现在他的每一页书里，你们必须非常仔细地读。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The body theorist should say, The key to personal identity is having the same body, to wit,the same brain,to wit,enough of the brain to keep the personality going-- provided that there's no branching,no splitting,no perfect competitors,only one.

肉体主义者能说，个人认同感的关键就是拥有肉体，也就是说拥有足够支持人格继续的大脑-,在没有分支，分裂以及竞争者的前提下。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Really,the body view,to wit,the best version of the body view, that is the brain version,now has to say, Oh,we moved Shelly's brain and put it here.

其实，肉体理论的最佳版本就是，大脑理论，这种理论就不得不认为，我们把Shelly的大脑移到这边了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选