As the mulch breaks down, it provides material that keeps the soil from getting hard.

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It's juicy evidence that provides for Milton's intense fondness for - we might even think of it as a passion for - this earlier English poet.

它用大量的证据表明了弥尔顿,-我们可以视其为一种激情,对于早期英文诗歌的热爱。

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It also provides Milton with the figure of Mammon who will, as you will see over the course of this semester become - well, here in Paradise Lost he's one of the key fallen angels in Milton's hell.

它也为弥尔顿提供了贪欲之神这一形象，正如在本学期这一门课中你们将始终看到的，贪欲之神,在《失乐园》中会变成,弥尔顿地狱中主要的堕落天使之一。

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But this provides a kind of introduction, as it were, to the Republic.

但它确实充当了，《理想国》的最佳引言。

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But one of the things that it can do, one of the things that sort of provides the underpinnings, as we'll see, for Plato's arguments for the immortality of the soul is the soul can think about--; well, here I'll have to introduce a word of philosophical jargon.

但是,在灵魂能做的所有事情中,我们会发现,有一件事可以说是,柏拉图论证灵魂不朽的基础,这件事就是,灵魂能够思考,在这里我要引入一个哲学术语

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