A lot of people are saying, "Enough of this kind of effete culture.

很多人都在说，“我们已经厌倦了这毫无生气的文化。

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I find it a bit soulless here.

我发觉这里毫无生气。

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I think that Milton intends for us to think of the verse in Paradise Lost as he wanted us to think of books in Areopagitica: the lines of Milton's poetry are not absolutely dead things, but they do contain within them a potency of life.

弥尔顿在《论出版自由中》让我们把书看作是肉体,我想他也想让我们这样看待《失乐园》的诗句：,弥尔顿的诗句不是毫无生气的，它们蕴含着生命的潜质。

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