Milton, like so many of his contemporaries, kept a commonplace book and, as you can imagine, he kept it for the most part in Latin.

和许多同代的人一样，弥尔顿，写一本普通的书，正如你所想象的，他所写那本书大部分是拉丁文。

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The text into which any early modern seventeenth-century writer would jot his or her thoughts into, his reading notes, was always called a commonplace book.

他的阅读笔记,那是许多早期的十七世纪现代作家都会深深思考的笔记，它常常被称为一本普通的书。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's not a daunting book. It's meant for laypeople.

不是一本让人生畏的书，是专门为普通人写的。

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