"The number one area we need to focus on, the biggest potential vulnerability, is a bomb on the body,"

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This intensely intimate focus on the human body is out of place in a Christian elegy and this, of course, Milton knows.

这对人类肉体的极端关注在一首基督教悼亡诗中,是不合时宜的，弥尔顿当然知道这点。

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That is, you're dead as a person. Previously, we distinguished between the death of my body and my death as a person; let's focus on my death as a person.

这指的是你作为个人的死亡,之前我们已区别了肉体和个人的死亡;,现在我们将重点放在个人的死亡上。

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I don't think that the critics who see here an image of castration are just imagining it, because there is such a weird and such a persistent interest in the human body, and especially in the poet's body, throughout this poem - Milton's focus on the body, on the entire realm of the corporeal.

有评论家认为弥尔顿在这里是暗喻阉割不是,凭空想象出来的，因为贯穿《利西达斯》整首诗,都有一种奇怪的一直都存在的对于人体，尤其是对这诗人的身体的兴趣,-弥尔顿对人体，对整个物质世界的关注。

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What the philosopher tries to do, then, so as to better focus on these ideal things, is to disregard the body, put it aside, separate his mind as much as possible from it.

所以 哲学家们,为了全神贯注于这些理想事物,就要忽略肉体,撇开肉体,尽可能地分离精神和肉体

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