And eventually this question would start, "Is this really all there is to life, ?" just simple pleasure like this?"

最终疑问会变成，“难道生命仅此而已，只是这样单调的快感“

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But precisely, the human part of you is going to rebel at the unending parade of simple rat-like pleasures.

更确切地，你的人性会反抗,一股股永无止尽的单调的老鼠般的快感。

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It means something like a kind of dulled grayness or ordinariness of life.

它代表着一种,生活的灰暗，单调。

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They're invariably cited as among the most beautiful and exquisite lines in Paradise Lost but on some level they've proven the bane of scholars because they can't be squared with any of the poem's theological message.

它们被单调地引证为,中最美最细致的诗句,但在某些层面他们证明了学者的祸害,因为它们并不能与诗歌所传达的神学信息相一致。

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Now this is a piece that's always interested me because the painting is very pedestrian.

于是就有了这首总是让我产生兴趣的乐曲,因为画本身非常单调

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He described provincials as being dominated by routine and monotony in their small towns, that they're all the same, he wrote, which is obviously not the case.

他把乡下人描绘成在小城镇中,过着千篇一律的单调生活,他写道,他们全是一个模子里刻出来的,情况显然不是这样

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The missing stuff,the missing thing is there in all sorts of familiar humdrum ways as well.

各种各样的缺失,皆是如此,在以如此熟悉的单调套路进行着

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Milton corrects -- it's as if he's correcting the sense of monotony with which he had begun the poem, and he corrects that sense of monotony by rewriting that initial phrase.

弥尔顿纠正道-正如他纠正那种单调的枯燥感,他用诗歌的开头句进行了纠正，他还通过重写开头句来纠正那种枯燥感。

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That is, the more familiar humdrum event of death here your body ceases functioning and you end up having a corpse that gets buried and so forth.

这是死亡最常见的单调的形式,肉体停止一切功能,人最终成为尸体，放进棺材埋葬。

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There's all these pleasures of experiencing art and seeing a beautiful sunset. And I don't know about you, but at least when I imagine the rat lever thing, it's a sort of simple, undifferentiated pleasure.

体验艺术是快乐的,观赏美丽的日落是快乐的，我不了解你们，但当我想象老鼠杠杆时，那是一种简单，单调的快乐。

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