Does Milton only seem powerful because he has the force or the strength of the age-old literary canon behind him?

他之所以看起来充满力量,是因为身后的作品被人们奉为文学经典呢？

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so, like Dickens and Hardy and those kind of classic books. They're really nice.

那么，比如狄更斯和哈代的作品，还有那些经典读物。他们都非常不错。

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There are, of course, dozens of figures taken from the texts of classical mythology who are alluded to throughout the first two books, but invariably they appear, just as Tantalus does in this very passage, within the context of a simile.

当然，这部作品有很多人物是取材自,经典神话故事，他们是用来表达隐喻的,贯穿着前两册书，他们始终出现，就像丹达罗斯在这一诗篇中，给予诗内容一种喻示。

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In one of the greatest books ever written on the South, by a Southerner, in particular Wilbur Cash's great classic in 1940 called The Mind of the South, he did something similar to Jefferson, although he's focusing only on Southerners here.

在所有由南方人撰写,关于南方的伟大作品中,韦尔伯·卡什1940年的一本堪称经典,在这本叫做《南方的精神》的书中,他如杰斐逊一般对南方人做了描述,尽管这本书中他仅描述了南方人

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