So, there's a kind of lost paradise of European culture which he can't get back, even with this spectacular effort in English.

所以，这就是他不能再重新体验的,欧洲文化的失乐园，尽管在英语上做了惊人的努力。

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And it wouldn't be another twenty-two years after that until Milton actually published Paradise Lost.

直到22年后,弥尔顿才真正出版《失乐园》

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We can't know anything certain about the eternal and the immortal world of Paradise Lost except through these faculties we have and those are uncertain, imperfect, fallen human capacities of reading.

我们无法了解任何确切的,有关中的永恒不灭的世界的认识,除非那些借助于已有的不确切不完美的阅读技巧。

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