She's alluding here, I think, to one of the most famous passages in Paradise Lost in which Milton is asserting nothing other than his poetic power.

我认为，她这里是在暗指，《失乐园》最著名的篇章之一,在这篇章中弥尔顿仅仅是在展示他诗句的力量。

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In this case one of the people being interviewed is a woman named Susan Jebb, who is a prominent research in the UK.

这段采访的是,一位名叫苏珊· 杰伯的女士,她是英国著名的研究学者

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And he does the same thing, in fact, to those around him, famously to his lover, Maude Gonne, who becomes Helen of Troy in "No Second Troy"and in other poems.

他也这样表现他周围的人，著名的就要数他的爱人，昴德·冈昂，她在没有第二个特洛伊,和其他诗歌中化身为海伦。

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And she reflects, just above that, on the mattress that he must sleep in, and this is one of those great Pynchon sentences.

接着在他睡觉的床垫上，她思考着这是Pynchon著名的句子之一。

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It was a phenomenal thing, and she ended up on this very famous French television show called Apostrophe, with Bernard Pivot, who said that she was one of the most interesting people that he'd ever had on his show. And she died in 1977.

真的很了不起,她最后和伯纳德·皮沃特一起上了一个,法国著名的电视节目,叫"省略号",他说她是上这个节目的最有趣的人之一,她最后死于1977年

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I think of it as a kind of reply to that famous question in "Leda and the Swan"; that is, "did she put on his knowledge with his power before the indifferent beak could let her drop?"

这是对丽达和天鹅中那个,著名问题的回答，在那冷漠的嘴把她放下之前,她是否用她的力量获取了他的知识？

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