It's always Milton's duty - this is the reason that he was put on this earth: to liberate a people from any such constraining customs.

弥尔顿的使命是,-他是为此才诞于世上：,将英格兰民族从所有抑制人的传统中解放出来。

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It was clear,he was another Achilles in his own eyes, and it was for him to achieve the great deeds that I have been mentioning.

很清楚的是,他自认为是第二个阿喀琉斯,他的使命就是去获得,我一直在说的这些伟大成就

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But Milton portrays himself as a laborer here, a poet who by labor and intense study actually has to work to produce the great poem. Milton's divine vocation, his calling, seems in this light to be something like a vocation in the modern sense: it's a job that exacts work or labor.

但弥尔顿把他自己描绘成一个工人,一个只能通过努力学习来创作出,伟大诗歌的诗人，弥尔顿的神圣的使命，他的天职，就此而论就像现代意义上的职业了：,一份要求工作和劳动的职业。

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Plato himself, remember, made a number of trips to Sicily to serve as the advisor to a king there, Dionysius, and all of these missions failed and left him deeply dispirited.

记不记得柏拉图自己，曾多次旅行到西西里岛,从事国王顾问的工，Dionysius王，他所有的使命都未竟成功,并使他深深感到气馁。

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