Johnson says this kind of inaccurate word choice is happening so often now that she devotes a section of her class to the problem.

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Milton devotes a lot of time in Areopagitica to making a number of attempts to distinguish licensing from censorship.

弥尔顿在《论出版自由》中花了很大功夫,试图区分出版许可管理和出版控制。

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Orpheus devotes himself to his beautiful poetry, and he keeps himself sexually abstinent.

俄耳甫斯致力于写优美的诗歌，在性方面保持节制。

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When Plato writes his Republic and devotes Book Ten, as I'm sure most of you know, to an argument in effect banishing the poets from the ideal republic, part of the argument is that poets are terrible imitators.

当柏拉图写《理想国》和《第十卷》的时候，你们肯定都听过这两部著作，他提出了一个一个论点，要把诗人从理想国中驱逐出境，他提到，诗人都是拙劣的仿造者。

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