Milton wants to create the illusion that he's predicting, or that he's prophesying, the actions recounted in the poem, as if Milton were prophesying what of course we know to be already past.

弥尔顿想给我们一种他在预言，诗中所叙之事的感觉，似乎他是在预言这些我们都知道已经发生了的事情。

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The Hebrew word that designates the creature created by God is ; the word adam. It's actually not a proper name, small a; it is adam, it's a generic term.

希伯来语中命名上帝所造之物的词语正是,“亚当“它其实并不是一个准确的名字;,他是上帝所创之物，是类属的名称。

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Aristotle is considered the ancestor of the varying sorts of thought about form, and it's this move, this move that he makes in the Poetics, that engenders this possibility.

亚里士多德称得上是对形式的多元思考之父,正是他所做的，和在《诗学》书中所提到的，使这一切成为可能。

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This seems to be a statement of his alienation or disaffection from the concerns of his fellow Athenians. I know nothing about what you do or what you care about.

这似乎是他对雅典同胞,所关心之事务疏离,或不满的表述,我不知道你做啥。

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His challenge to the poets is in a way the basis for the resentment that is built up against him in that Aristophanes and what he calls the earlier accusers have brought to bear.

他对诗人的挑战，某个层面来说,是对反对他的人所产生之愤恨的基础,这是亚里斯多芬尼斯及他所谓的,前代原告施加于他的。

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It is the skill possessed by the greatest statesmen you might say the fathers of the constitutions as it were who create the permanent framework in which allows later and lesser figures to handle change.

这是最优政治家所应具备的技能,你也可以说,即是宪法之父,如同前人所公认，他创建永恒的架构,让后代及门徒们,能用以应付变革。

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