A man who is living in a polis not doing well, how can he be happy? There's just no way.

一个生活在城邦里的人没有做好本分,他怎么会幸福,这是不可能的事情

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And I'm trying to suggest that Milton's composition of this poem is actually doing something for him, that it gets him somewhere, and that it's functional in a genuine sense.

我试图设想弥尔顿的这首诗,实际上是在为他做一些事情，使他，能够真正的发挥某些作用。

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He has to modify his plans for the first couple, by barring access to the tree of life. That was not something presumably he planned to do This is in response to, perhaps, their unforeseen disobedience certainly the way the story unfolds that's how it seems to us.

他更改了他的原计划，除了不能接近生命树,这些并不是他本打算做的事情,这也许是对意外挑衅的回应,故事是对后人的警告。

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Because when that happens, when he gives up his rage, and he allows-- you remember he allows Priam to bury his son Hector, something he would have refused to do in his rage.

通过这件事可以看出来--,当他不再愤怒时,他允许--,你们记得吗,他允许普里阿摩斯埋葬他的儿子赫克托尔,而这是当他愤怒时本该拒绝的事情

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The philosopher Spinoza thought that ... if we could only recognize the fact, what he at least took to be the fact, that everything that happens in life is necessary, then we'd get a kind of emotional distance from it; it would no longer upset us.

哲学家Spinoza认为,如果我们能够认识到这个事实，至少他认为这是事实，即生活中的一切事情都是必然的，那么它对我们的情绪影响就比较少;,它不会再让我们感到痛苦。

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