And it's this rhetoric of anticipation, this language of looking forward, that structures all of Milton's own narratives about his own literary career.

正是这种预期修辞学，这种期待的文字，构建了所有弥尔顿的自述,和他自己的文学事业。

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The philosopher-king, he tells us, may be an object of hope or wish but Plato realizes that this possibility is not really to be expected.

他告诉我们，哲学家国王也许是希望或愿望的目标,但柏拉图了解到,这种可能性不是真的值得期待。

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