The heaven imagined here is able actually to supply us, in fact, with a better body than the one we had down here.

弥尔顿在这里想象的天堂其实能给我们，比在地上时更好的躯体。

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He rises to a position of great power when he correctly interprets some dreams regarding an impending famine, and with Joseph as the governor of the country, in control of the grain supply, Egypt successfully weathers seven years of famine.

他荣升到掌握大权的地位,当他准确地解读了预示饥荒的梦，约瑟夫做国家的管理者，并且控制谷物供给时，埃及成功地避免了七年的饥荒。

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One of the labors of reading Paradise Lost is the reader's obligation to supply the analog for the X, and this poem is filled with such X's.

读的一个麻烦就是,读者需要自行类比出X究竟是什么，偏偏诗中又充满了这种不确定物。

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