Milton had begun the sentence not with calm, prophetic certainty about his divine vocation. He began it with a far more secular set of images, a set of images that comes from the world of business.

弥尔顿并不是以一种先知对他天职，的冷静确信开始写的，他以，更世俗的比喻开始，生意上的比喻。

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Drumming up new business in America is difficult because the market is saturated (although cashless transactions are showing a secular increase).

在美国开展新业务是相当困难的，因为市场已经饱和(尽管信用卡结算还将保持长期增长趋势)。

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Milton had begun the sentence not with calm, prophetic certainty about his divine vocation. He began it with a far more secular set of images, a set of images that comes from the world of business.

弥尔顿并不是以一种先知对他天职，的冷静确信开始写的，他以,更世俗的比喻开始,生意上的比喻。

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