Professor John Rogers: For a vast number of complicated reasons, Milton has invited for 350 years now a uniquely violent and I do think it's a violent response to the particular question of his value as a poet.

约翰·罗杰斯教授：350年来，由于很多复杂原因，对于米尔顿作为一个诗人到底有何巨大意义,人们的反应一直都很激烈,我确实认为是很激烈的反应。

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Now readers have always seemed to have agreed that Milton's Lycidas is an enormously admirable poem, but for a few hundred years now there has been a controversy over how admirable Milton's Lycidas is, specifically as an elegy.

现在读者们一致认为,弥尔顿的《利西达斯》是一首极其非凡的诗作，但是几百年来，对于这首诗，特别是作为一首悼亡诗,到底有多么非凡一直有所争论。

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Earnings are something that accountants have generated and they've been doing it all the way back to 1871-- it's a venerable concept; it's how much money the company made this year, if it's annual earnings.

收益是会计们算出来的,从1871年来一直如此,他们值得尊敬,年收益指的是公司这一年赚到的钱

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In fact for readers of Paradise Lost, and this has been an experience now for a few hundred years, it does often seem as if there were some mysterious life force, a pulsating through Milton's dense and driving lines of unrhymed, iambic pentameter.

实际上，《失乐园》的读者们，几百年来一直都有这种体验，确实，似乎真有一种神秘的生命力，一种脉搏，贯穿在弥尔顿密集，强劲，没有韵律，长短不一的五音步格诗之中。

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