Everyone agrees that what Milton is doing in the similes is educating the reader, the reader of this poem.

大家都同意弥尔顿想要通过这些直白的明喻,来教育这首诗的读者。

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Fish imagines Milton as always on some level slapping the reader's wrist, reminding the reader of his or her fallen-ness, that there's a constant pedagogical correction going on.

费什想象弥尔顿总是在某种程度上斥责着读者们，提醒他们自身的堕落，并且诗中有一种持续的教育性的纠正在重复出现。

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And just from this little section of the poem, you can see that the theme of a new kind of education and only that can remedy nature's defects, as Machiavelli calls them. It is this lack of strife, this long lack of strife, that makes people weak.

仅从这首诗的这一小部分中，你能看到一种提倡新型教育的主题,而且只有那样才能弥补本性的缺陷，如马基雅维利所称，正是由于缺少争斗，这种长时期的冲突匮乏，才使得人们变得软弱。

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