The problem was, of course, Nat Turner's Insurrection; it had just occurred in October of 1831 and they held these debates in the wake of it.

问题是,在1831年爆发了,纳特特纳的起义,他们把这些议题推迟到起义之后

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And some nights I would put that off pretty late.

有些时候，我会推迟到晚上很晚才写。

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So the satisfactions of the moment are for Milton deferred here; and it's something like a recognizable process of deferral and postponement that you will see beginning to form themselves at the very center of Milton's poetic imagination.

因此对这一时刻的满意就是因为弥尔顿把它推迟到这;,而且就像一个可以察觉的推迟过程,从一开始你就会看到这些推迟是顺其自然的,这在弥尔顿的诗歌想象中可以看到。

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