There are some important signs, I think, especially in the first two books of Paradise Lost of what we can think of as Milton's - it's a literary fantasy, a literary fantasy of forgetfulness.

我认为有一些重要的迹象，尤其是在,《失乐园》的前两册书中,从那里我们可以思考弥尔顿之所想,这是一次对于遗忘的文学幻想。

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It's an amazing passage because in a lot of ways, I think, Milton is actually directly enacting for us, the reader, the impossibility of such sweet forgetfulness.

我认为这段诗在很多方面都是令人惊叹的，弥尔顿事实上在直接为我们读者上演着，取得甜美遗忘的不可能。

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One of these little details that Milton has lifted rather directly is that of the river Lethe, the river of oblivion that was believed to flow in the underworld.

其中弥尔顿直接盗用的一个小细节,是遗忘之河，即忘川,忘川被认为在地狱流淌。

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