What it refers to is people get the impression that they can control randomness.

准神奇式思考指的是人们认为,自己可以做出某些行动,解除原来的决定或改变历史

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But by the time Milton begins writing his epic, he abandons his plan for a nationalistic poem, a nationalist poem, and decides instead to use the subject matter that he had been intending for that prospective tragedy, Paradise Lost.

当弥尔顿开始写史诗的时候，他放弃了原来写民族主义诗歌的计划，转而决定用他本来打算写的悲剧,《失乐园》的主题。

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