And what he writes about is an extraordinary concept really: it's something called "the nobility of the poem".

他所写的是一个绝妙的理念,叫做，诗歌的高贵。

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Student: I guess it's because of the fact that he's doing something that's really not good, and it almost seems like he's trivializing it.

我想因为他想要做一些,不是很好的事情，他好像要使之平凡化。

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How can Milton know that he was really and truly called by God to be a great poet until he writes something - it's not a bad question - until he has something actually to show for his talent?

弥尔顿怎么知道他是不是真的被,上帝选中了去做一个伟大的诗人,除非他真的创作出点儿什么--这是一个不坏的问题,-直到他真有可以证明自己才能的作品？

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So, Achilles is not doing anything sort of illegal or unconstitutional, but he's doing something that's really out of line from a normal point of view.

阿喀琉斯并没做什么不合法律的行为,但从我们的角度来看,他的行为的确过分了

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