And I think it's a measure of the power of Milton's anti-tyrannical language that it can be used against Milton himself.

我认为这种米尔顿的反暴政语言之力量的,衡量标准可用于弥尔顿自己身上。

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You say to yourself, "Ah ha! There is an example of somebody taking language by the scruff of the neck and changing it as an individual, exerting an individual will over against the conventional nature of language."

你也许会想，这不就是一个,凭个人力量改变语言,的活生生的例子吗,它的确改变了语言的惯例“

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And this is part of the power of language.

这就是语言的力量之一

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Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.

语言的力量无可估量，绝不是单单使用一下那么简单：,而是通过假意遵从，以及勾起人性良知的方式表达的。

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