With a plot furnished by Homer, against a setting by Dante, and with characters motivated by Shakespeare, Ulysses is really not as difficult to comprehend as critics like to pretend."

荷马设置的情节，但丁提供的背景，莎士比亚推动的角色，《尤利西斯》真的不像,评论家鼓吹的那样难懂“

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And so it would seem to be Dante's use of the image that has a primary influence here on Milton, but, as we might expect, there is a complication in the way that Milton uses this particular image.

因此但丁对这个比喻的应用,对弥尔顿有最深刻的影响，但是，如我们期待的，这里弥尔顿在运用,这个特别的比喻的方式上，有一点复杂。

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And this universality was given expression in Dante's famous treatise, De Monarchia, of monarchy, that set out a model for a universal Christian state, based on the unity and oneness of the human race under a Christian ruler.

而这种特性可追溯,至但丁的著名论述《论王权》,探讨君主政权,这设定了一种普遍基督国的模式，根据统一,与独一的人种皆受基督王权的统治。

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