In making this point, Milton has just made us, I think, almost utterly unwilling to effect this justice that he himself has called for.

在这个论点中，我认为弥尔顿让我们，几乎完全不情愿地影响了这个审判,这个他说需要的审判。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But it's almost as if Milton were tempted now to make himself go even further back, to write a humble ode that he could place at the feet of the Creator, the Creator at the moment of the actual creation of the entire universe.

但弥尔顿那时好像,要把自己放回比那还要早的年代，来写一篇谦逊的颂歌安放在造物主的脚下，那时的造物主实际就是创造天地万物的神。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He almost never explains himself to other people.

他几乎从不向别人解释。

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In almost every poem Walt Whitman wrote he seems to be fashioning himself, if not the whole of this American people, which sometimes he did call an American race, as a new Adam.

在沃尔特·惠特曼所写的的几乎每首诗中,他似乎都是在标榜自己,如果不是标榜美国人民的话,但他确实有时将美利坚民族,称为一个新的亚当

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