For most readers in Milton's time, rhyme was actually constitutive of poetry, and Milton's lines of unrhymed verse here may well have not seemed poetry at all. It was shocking.

对大部分弥尔顿时期的读者来说，押韵是,诗歌的组成部分，弥尔顿这不押韵的诗句,很可能看起来根本不是诗，它令人震惊。

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These doctrines have not simply been refuted or replaced or historically superceded; they remain in many ways constitutive of our most basis outlooks and attitudes.

这些学说没有被轻易地驳倒，取代,或被淹没于历史洪流;,他们在很多层面上,维持着我们本质上最基本的看法与态度。

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