But many workers dismiss the federation as useless.

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In The Iliad, as you can see, the warrior Glaucus uses the simile of the leaves to dismiss the importance of genealogy.

在里，你们会发现，武士格劳休斯,用了落叶的比喻来降低家族谱系的重要性。

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But before we dismiss Aristotle's account as insufferably inegalitarian and elitist, we have to ask a difficult question, not just of Aristotle, but more importantly of ourselves.

但在我们驳斥亚里士多德的论点之前,即令人无法忍受的不平等及精英者论点，我们必需要问一个艰难的问题，不只是关于亚里士多德，对我们更是重要。

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It's as if Milton places the beautiful poetry of Shakespeare into the mouth of this evil magician so as to dismiss all the more easily the easy, L'Allegro-mode of poetry that Shakespeare seems for Milton to embody.

这就好像弥尔顿把莎士比亚美丽的诗句,放进了邪恶魔术师的口中,所以可以更容易地反驳，好像莎士比亚把L’Allegro模式诗给弥尔顿去具体化。

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