Another way into this problem: let's look at the comments that Dr. Johnson made about Milton's Lycidas in the eighteenth century.

看这个问题的另一个角度：让我们看看,约翰逊博士在18世纪队弥尔顿的《利西达斯》所做的评论。

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Dr. Samuel Johnson the greatest of all eighteenth-century literary critics is absolutely flabbergasted that Milton would have these brothers do something so stupid.

8世纪最伟大的文学评论家塞缪尔约翰逊博士,非常大吃一惊,弥尔顿居然会让小姐的弟弟干这些蠢事。

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Okay. Famously, Dr. Johnson couldn't bear this poem, Lycidas - Dr. Johnson, the greatest of all literary critics of the eighteenth century.

好的，众所周知，约翰逊博士受不了《利西达斯》这首诗,-约翰逊博士，18世纪最伟大的文学评论家。

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Okay. That's the end. I want to remind you a final time to look at your Spenser, the cave of Mammon episode, as well as Dr. Johnson's brief comments on Sin and Death.

好，就讲到这，最后一次提醒你们,阅读斯宾塞，贪欲之神的洞窟的故事，还有约翰逊博士对《罪与死亡》的简评。

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And so I want to quote Dr. Johnson here, and this is on the handout.

在这里我想引用约翰逊博士，这在讲义上有。

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The difficulty of the poem lies to a great degree, I think, in something that Dr. Johnson had noted in his attack or in his criticism on Lycidas that I mentioned on Monday.

诗歌本身的难点很大程度上，在于约翰逊博士在他对利西达斯的,抨击中提到的一些点。

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It's just this kind of rhetorical trick that Milton uses - so many rhetorical tricks like this that Milton will use throughout the poem -- that led Dr. Johnson to say in utter exasperation, but admiration, that "Milton wrote no language": this isn't English that Milton is writing here.

正是弥尔顿使用的这种修辞手法,-弥尔顿全诗使用了大量这样的修辞手法,-让约翰逊博士懊恼而又钦佩的说，“弥尔顿所写不是语言“,弥尔顿这里写的不是英语。

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