Socrates confidently defiantly asserts " to his listeners to his audience.

苏格拉底自信且大胆地,向其听众们如此声言，或说“观众。

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He was long in choosing the subject of his heroic song and, as we know from all of -- and we've encountered a number of them - all of those protestations of delay Milton began his epic late.

他久久未能确定他要写的英雄之歌的主题，这我们从从弥尔顿多次声言,自己的史诗动笔很晚就能看出。

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