Now in these two books we've seen Milton dig up and discard just about the entire tradition of epic poetry.

现在在我们看到的两册书中弥尔顿,挖出并丢弃了所有史诗的传统。

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It's an underworld filled with gold that a brigade of fallen angels begins to extract with spades and pick axes.

在这个地狱一群堕落天使们可以拿着铲子和锤子,挖取地下的金矿。

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But it had rows of seats like that, usually made over a hill or dug into the ground in some way.

但是观众席的结构很相似，通常建在山坡上或挖入地下。

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Elliott Gorn, a wonderful historian up at Brown, wrote a brilliant, fascinating, half-crazy essay once about eye-gouging and Southern fighting.

艾略特·龚是布朗时期一个伟大的历史家,他写了一本很有趣,很引人入胜,口味很重的一本小说,是关于南方式打架和挖眼珠的

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He says,"provincials are like mold, burrowing in their little plots, or frogs at the bottom of their puddles, engaged in sordid, trivial rivalries, moved by petty jealousies, avarice and material interests.

他说,乡下人就像模子里刻出来的,在他们的自留地里乱挖一气,或者在泥浆里面挖青蛙,从事着肮脏,没什么竞争性的工作,为嫉妒,贪婪和物欲所驱动

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We won't go too far.

不要一下挖的太深。

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Look again at the sentence that I just read, the last lines: Soon had his crew Op'nd into the Hill a spacious wound And dig'd out ribs of Gold."

再看一下我刚刚读过的句子，在最后几行：,不久，他带去的人马,凿开了那座山，画出一条很大的伤口,挖出黄金的肋条“

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Out of the wound are dug "ribs of gold." The image that seems initially negative begins to resemble something, I think, quite important and quite beautiful. I'm thinking here of the creation of Eve.

从伤口处挖出了黄金的肋骨，这景象,首先带给人以负面的遐想，我认为这是十分重要的,及十分美丽的，这让我想到了夏娃的诞生。

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