It's an allusion that has everything to do with Milton's own sense of his unreadiness, and I'm thinking of that. Oh, it's just -- it's wonderful, that strange moment that happens fairly early on in the poem.

这是一个和弥尔顿自身的迟疑感,息息相关的幻想，我认为，就诗歌创作的早期而言，这是非常美妙的。

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And the point of this is so that you don't come to class heads down the whole time thinking everything I say is absolutely worthy of being written down.

这样做的意义在于你不必,从头到尾去考虑要不要,把我所说的都记录下来。

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