The ambition that I'm describing is a public and political one.

我所描述的雄心,是在公众和政治方面。

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It's a measure of Milton's ambition and his intellectual courage that enables him to set out to justify a God who can inflict upon his creatures such a seemingly arbitrary act of licensing.

就是弥尔顿的雄心和他智慧的勇气,让他去证实上帝是能强加给他创造的世界,这样看起来专横的控制的行为。

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