But the problem of one's being called to be a great poet is that one may have an inkling or some sense of a promise of future greatness but nothing really to show for it yet.

但是一个人被召唤去变成伟大诗人的问题在于,他可能会有一丝感觉他将来必定是伟大的,但还没有什么能够真正表明这一切。

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And so the story continues. In the third month, after the Exodus, the Israelites arrive at the wilderness of Sinai, and they encamp at the mountain where Moses was first called by God, the text says.

故事继续，在出埃及以后的第三个月，犹太人到达了西奈的荒野中,书上说，他们在摩西第一次被上帝召唤的山上露营。

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Milton was always wrestling with the problem of vocation in all of its meanings, and the problem of what a calling actually is and how one actually knows one has a calling is a problem that pulsates somewhere beneath most of the lines of poetry that Milton writes.

弥尔顿经常纠结于这两个,含义，以及到底什么是神的招唤,还有人们是怎么知道他被召唤了,这些问题反复出现在,弥尔顿的诗句中。

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