And it's this rhetoric of anticipation, this language of looking forward, that structures all of Milton's own narratives about his own literary career.

正是这种预期修辞学，这种期待的文字，构建了所有弥尔顿的自述,和他自己的文学事业。

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What could possibly be more presumptuous than the association of the beginning of one's own career, one's own literary career, with the birth of the Christian messiah?

还有什么能够比,把自己事业的开端，自己的文学生涯，与基督教救世主的诞生相提并论更胆大妄为的？

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But he's really in the middle of his literary career at that point.

但他那时确实是在,他文学事业的中期。

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Milton's subject in his first English poem is -- we can guess it it's his future literary career.

弥尔顿在他的第一首英语诗歌里的主题，我们可以猜一下,是他将来的文学事业。

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John Milton will remain unique in English letters for the degree of thought that he gave to the shape of his literary career, or actually to the notion of a career at all.

约翰弥尔顿在英语文学方面的影响是十分独特的,因为他深刻的思想塑造了他的文学事业，或者说，塑造了他对事业的看法。

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But the parting genius is also a part of Milton's own genius, his literary genius, that aspect of his literary career and his literary expertise that has been nourished and fed, lovingly fed, by classical literature.

但这些逝去的天赋也是弥尔顿的天赋的一部分，还有他的文学事业方面的天赋,和被古典文学，深深滋养的才能。

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