Thomas Hobbes was the author of the first and, I believe, undoubtedly the greatest, work of political theory written in the English language.

托马斯·霍布斯是第一部，我相信，毫无疑问也是最伟大的一部，用英语写成的,政治学著作的作者。

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Later writers take this poetic image and fill out the allusion to - drowning in this ancient song, and compose the prose accounts in Exodus 14, in which the metaphor is literalized.

随后，作者利用这个场景,用这个古老的歌谣进行影射，创作了这一段白话诗,《出埃及记》14，在这段文字中的暗喻被文学化了。

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Pseudonymous means it's published with a false name, a false author attributed.

笔名的意思是用一个假名发表，以一个假作者的名义。

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We could interrogate the author psychoanalytically.

我们可以用心理分析的方法询问作者。

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A writer like Mary Astell can employ Milton's revolutionary rhetoric to advance a cause to which John Milton himself would of course ; have had difficulty subscribing; a dead Milton could exercise a social power that had nothing whatsoever to do with the living Milton's own social views.

一个像玛丽·阿斯苔这样的作者可以用弥尔顿的革命性语言,来推动一项事业，一项约翰·弥尔顿本人当然很难,赞同的事业;,死去的弥尔顿竟然能够操纵与生前弥尔顿的社会观点,毫无关系的社会力量。

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