Orpheus in a lot of ways seemed like the perfect model of a poet because he had the power to do something with his poetry.

从很多方面来看俄耳甫斯像是个完美的诗人,因为他的诗有实际的作用。

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Self knowledge is like lost innocence, however unsettling you find it; it can never be un-thought or un-known.

自我认知就像逝去的童真，不管你有多不安;,你已经无法不去想或是充耳不闻了。

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As a virginal orator, should she choose to unleash her powers, she would have the power of an Orpheus moving dumb things to sympathize -- Orpheus being one of Milton's most prized mythological figures of the powerful poet.

作为一名处女演说家，如果她选择释放自己的力量，她应该会有像俄耳甫斯一样的力量,使哑的东西也受到感动而有同情心,俄耳甫斯是弥尔顿最为称赞的有权利的神话传说诗人。

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