In Lycidas, Milton looks back at the Elder Brother's theodicy, and it's almost as if he's attempting to test its validity.

在这首诗中，弥尔顿回顾了《科玛斯》中哥哥的斯奥迪斯，似乎是在验证斯奥迪斯正确与否。

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It's this sense of injustice that keeps pushing this elegy in the direction of a theodicy: an attempt to justify the ways of God.

正是这种愤愤不平使这首悼亡诗,越来越像斯奥迪斯：试图证明上帝之所为。

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Milton has to justify or at least understand this seemingly incomprehensible and unjustifiable event. It's this drive to theodicy that accounts for the poem's most painful moments.

弥尔顿要解释，至少要理解,这看起来不可理喻，无法解释的事件,这首诗最悲痛之处正是源于这斯奥迪斯的动力。

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