But I think Milton would probably feel a little uncomfortable with our easy attribution of so much of the poem's learning to his memory.

但我想弥尔顿可能会感到小小的不悦,因为我们把他的诗中丰富知识,简单地归功于他的记忆。

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This learning springs from the recesses of Milton's memory.

这一知识之泉源自于弥尔顿的记忆深处。

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The things that they taught us in school, when they required us to remember poetry, no matter how we try, we can't forget it, and the stuff that we had to remember that was in prose, no matter how we try we can't remember it.

我们在学校所学的知识,当以诗歌的形式进行记忆时,不论怎么尝试,我们都很难忘记,但是如果让我们背诵散文,不论怎么尝试,我们都很难记住

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I take this to be an undeniable fact, but this is easy for us to say - it's easy for us to say that it's Milton's memory which is the fount of so much of the poem's erudition.

我认为这是无可辩驳的，但我们可以轻易地说,我们可以说那是弥尔顿的记忆,作为了这部诗篇如此广博知识的源泉。

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