I propose that we think of Milton at the opening of Lycidas as being stuck, stuck at a particular point in the imagined, the projected or fantasized, trajectory of his career.

我提议我们设想弥尔顿在的开头，是被他的一种假设的，设想中的或理想化的，职业生涯轨迹所束缚了。

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That's because to suggest -- just think of it - to suggest that Milton is relying on his memory as he composes so allusively and so dependently, in a lot of ways, so much of Paradise Lost - to say that is simply to say that the poem has been generated by Milton and not by God.

让我们来设想一下其中的原因吧,假设弥尔顿全靠着他的记忆,正如他隐晦而连续地在《失乐园》中引经据典，并将这些以多种方式组合，这在《失乐园》中随处可见,以至于人们可以简单地说这部诗,是出自弥尔顿而非上帝的创作。

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