Its difficulty lies in Milton's tendency in this poem to seek out what Dr. Johnson wonderfully calls remote allusions.

诗的难点在于弥尔顿想要在诗中极力追求,被约翰逊绝妙地称为不切实际的幻想的倾向。

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The very structure, in fact, of Milton's poem here is what Dr. Johnson would be obliged to call a remote allusion.

约翰逊称弥尔顿这首诗的结构,是遥远的幻境是不得已的。

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Another way into this problem: let's look at the comments that Dr. Johnson made about Milton's Lycidas in the eighteenth century.

看这个问题的另一个角度：让我们看看,约翰逊博士在18世纪队弥尔顿的《利西达斯》所做的评论。

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Dr. Samuel Johnson the greatest of all eighteenth-century literary critics is absolutely flabbergasted that Milton would have these brothers do something so stupid.

8世纪最伟大的文学评论家塞缪尔约翰逊博士,非常大吃一惊,弥尔顿居然会让小姐的弟弟干这些蠢事。

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It's just this kind of rhetorical trick that Milton uses - so many rhetorical tricks like this that Milton will use throughout the poem -- that led Dr. Johnson to say in utter exasperation, but admiration, that "Milton wrote no language": this isn't English that Milton is writing here.

正是弥尔顿使用的这种修辞手法,-弥尔顿全诗使用了大量这样的修辞手法,-让约翰逊博士懊恼而又钦佩的说，“弥尔顿所写不是语言“,弥尔顿这里写的不是英语。

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