this is what I get paid to do and it's this type of signifying gap that compels us as literary critics to dive in and to begin to explore.

这就是我被付薪水去干的事,正是这种重要的缺口,迫使我们像文学评论家般去潜心钻研。

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The conclusion reached in Book Three is that God has foreknowledge but he isn't interested in actual predetermination or some type of divine action that literally compels the behavior of human creatures.

卷三中的结论是,上帝享有先知，但是他对,实际意义上的预决或强迫着人类行为的,所谓神圣的做法并不感兴趣。

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Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime... Milton is lamenting, once again, that Milton has been compelled to begin writing.

因为亲友的惨遇，痛苦的重压，迫使我前来扰乱你正茂的年华：,利西达斯死了，死于峥嵘岁月。,弥尔顿再一次哀叹道，他是不得以写这首诗的。

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