It illustrates Satan's self-destruction even as the main narrative of the simile portrays Satan's heroism.

这个故事讲述了撒旦的自我毁灭,尽管它也描述了撒旦的英雄主义。

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Plato, as a dualist, portrays Socrates as being a dualist and that's just taken for granted.

作为一个二元论者,柏拉图理所当然地,把苏格拉底塑造成一个二元论者

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But Milton portrays himself as a laborer here, a poet who by labor and intense study actually has to work to produce the great poem. Milton's divine vocation, his calling, seems in this light to be something like a vocation in the modern sense: it's a job that exacts work or labor.

但弥尔顿把他自己描绘成一个工人,一个只能通过努力学习来创作出,伟大诗歌的诗人，弥尔顿的神圣的使命，他的天职，就此而论就像现代意义上的职业了：,一份要求工作和劳动的职业。

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