Fish imagines Milton as always on some level slapping the reader's wrist, reminding the reader of his or her fallen-ness, that there's a constant pedagogical correction going on.

费什想象弥尔顿总是在某种程度上斥责着读者们，提醒他们自身的堕落，并且诗中有一种持续的教育性的纠正在重复出现。

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Why didn't we say that Luke died when he lost his wrist? Because the brain after all was the part of the body that houses the personality.

为什么我们不说，当卢克断手后,就死了呢？，因为大脑才是,储存人格的身体部位。

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Imagine that when everybody's born, on their wrist everybody's born with a natural birthmark that indicates the precise year, day, and time in which they're going to die.

假设当大家出生的时候，手腕上都有一个天生的胎记,它预示了哪一年，哪一天，哪个时候你会死去。

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