The god told Virgil that he wasn't ready yet for the manly, the adult, and the public world, the important world, of epic poetry.

神明告诉维吉尔，他还没有准备好接受，成人世界和公众世界，以及史诗的重要领域。

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Homer was in error, Milton told us, and Milton called on the moral voice of Spenser to help him make that moral judgment against Homer.

弥尔顿告诉我们荷马错了，他还要求斯潘塞的道德之声,帮助他做出反对荷马的道德判断。

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Yet, at the same time, he tells us that the sovereign is the creation of the people whom he represents or it represents.

与此同时，他还告诉我们,君主是从人民中产生,并代表广大人民利益的。

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We would be told that he was very honest and told his father he chopped down a cherry tree, which would be baloney, but we would be told that too. But I think we would be told also very many true things, which came down to us.

我们还被告知他很诚实,因为他告诉父亲,他砍倒了一棵樱桃树,这简直是胡扯,但我们还是会听到这些,除此之外,我们还会听到一些真实的历史事件

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Milton is telling us that he is himself in the process, still in the process, of maturing.

弥尔顿是告诉我们他自己也还正在，渐渐成熟的过程中。

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That concern with the state of one's soul he tells the jury has lead him not only to impoverish himself but to turn himself away from the public business from the things that concern the city to the pursuit of private virtue.

这种对灵魂状态的关心,如同他告诉陪审团,已经导致他不只精疲力尽,而且还使他从公共事务,即城邦所关心的事务,转向探寻个人的美德。

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