We know, of course, that Adam and Eve are going to eat the stupid fruit; but Milton is developing a style that works to resist our drive to get to the end of the story.

我们知道亚当夏娃会吃掉那愚蠢的果子;,但弥尔顿创造了一种体式,抗拒我们想要读到故事结局的冲动。

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and she doesn't see it at all until right at the end when there's a denouement, sort of revelation,

但是，她直到最后的结局才恍然大悟，算是一种启示，

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Setting yourself up before the fact so that you can win an argument after the fact, so that you didn't--you just got unlucky.

在事实发生之前先给自己预设一下结局,你就能在事实发生之后赢得一场争论，所以你并不是不能做到-，只是不走运而已。

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.. It's one thing to have-- it's not to say that the best-- if you want your life to be like the plot of a great story, it's not as though you think, " "All right, the denouement must occur at the very last page."

如果你拥有-,不是说最美好的生活-,如果你想让生活像美好的故事情节，它并不像你所想的，“好的，结局一定是在最后一页“

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