Joe is talking about America's best known celebration on New Year's Eve.

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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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Wonderful question. Well what about when Eve is tempted by the serpent?

问得好，怎么看待夏娃被蛇引诱？

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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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