One thing that most people do in fact agree on is that the oldest account of the event is a poetic fragment 12 that's found in Exodus 15, verses one to 12, in particular.

大家都同意的一点事,这个故事的最老版本来自于诗残本,尤其体现在《出埃及记》15中的诗1和。

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All of this has to be yoked together in the imagery of a good poem, particularly of a metaphysical poem, and this model of complexity is what matters both for modern literature and for literary criticism.

一首好诗,的应该融合这些意象，尤其一首玄学诗，同时，这种复杂性,在现代文学,和文学批评中都十分重要。

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As you may well have gleaned from your reading, the first books of the poem are particularly absorbed with the idea of forgetting, because more than any other part of Paradise Lost they display so ostentatiously the remarkable scope of Milton's own memory.

可能你们从阅读中也已经得知，这部诗的第一册,尤其表现了“遗忘“这一理念，因为相对于《失乐园》的其他部分,它们如此夸耀地展示了,弥尔顿自身记忆范围的宽广。

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