It uses the language of story and song and poetry and paradox and metaphor.

它运用故事和歌曲中的言语,和诗歌，悖论，隐喻去表达。

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how does that actually apply to real computers, right?

是怎么运用到真实的计算机中的呢？

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It's as if a gap has opened up, a gap between the official argument of and the rhetorical figures or the metaphors, Milton's elaborately construed language, which he uses to illustrate that argument.

这就像是一个鸿沟在专著中的正式论点,和运用修辞和比喻的部分之间打开了，弥尔顿精心地解释和分析他用来，阐述这个论点的语言。

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pastor The word pastoral comes from the Latin pastor, which literally means "shepherd," and Milton knew perfectly well how artificial his use of the pastoral mode of poetry would seem as well as how out of fashion, how completely outdated, it would seem.

这个词来源于拉丁语中的，字面上表示“牧羊人“,弥尔顿非常清楚他对这种田园诗的运用,看起来有多么的不自然，过时，多么的落伍。

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