I suggested just a minute ago that one of the relevant stories that is always lying behind Milton's discussion of human choice is the story from the Book of Genesis about Adam and Eve's choice to eat the forbidden fruit.

我一分钟前刚说过一个相关的故事,总是藏在弥尔顿对人类选择权问题的探讨背后,是《创世纪》中,亚当和夏娃选择偷吃禁果。

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You could go to Yeats's poem "Adam's Curse" to see the poet talking about this aesthetic ideal.

叶芝在他的诗歌亚当的诅咒里,谈论了他这一美学理想。

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Adam Smith, who is often falsely viewed as a proponent of selfishness and hardheadedness, was quite explicit about the pull this has.

经济学创立者亚当斯密经常被人误认为,是一个提倡自私和无情的人，但他却非常明白移情作用。

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The unfallen Adam certainly didn't need a telescope to discern a lot about the heavenly bodies.

失足前的亚当当然不会需要望远镜,来观察天堂中的人们。

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That chapter goes on to talk about ; the importance of engaging diversity; and God telling Adam that we live in a world ; with different beings, different parts, and different pieces; and Adam having the unique gift to be able to name those differences.

那章接着谈论了,融合差异的重要性;,上帝告诉亚当我们居住在一个,由不同的人，不同的部分组成的世界;,亚当拥有独特的天赋能够,为那些不同命名。

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God's forbidding of the fruit removes from Adam and Eve any capacity for choosing and deciding, and you can see Milton worrying in Areopagitica about the uneasy relationship of his own argument to this central text in divine scripture.

上帝对果实的禁止抽离了亚当和夏娃选择和决定的,能力，你会看到弥尔顿在《论出版自由》中的焦急,因为这不安的关系,他的论证和虔诚的圣典中的中心段落。

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The story of Adam and Eve and of the fall of Satan may strike us - having read or about to read Paradise Lost -- may strike us as a natural subject for Milton to have chosen for his epic poem.

弥尔顿选择了亚当夏娃以及撒旦的溃败的故事,作为他史诗的主题在我们看来--不管我们读过,还是将要读《失乐园》--都是很自然的。

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