Milton has to justify or at least understand this seemingly incomprehensible and unjustifiable event. It's this drive to theodicy that accounts for the poem's most painful moments.

弥尔顿要解释，至少要理解,这看起来不可理喻，无法解释的事件,这首诗最悲痛之处正是源于这斯奥迪斯的动力。

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What does Milton do -- this is what I see as our project, our interpretive project, as we approach this poem -what does Milton do to get himself unstuck from this seat of anxious anticipation? That's the project.

他到底做了什么-在我看来这是我们要研究的项目，我们研究这首诗时需要解释清的项目,他做了什么使自己腹背受控,从而受挫于令人焦虑的期望？，这是我们要研究的。

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