is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."

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Milton's would be an epic demonstrating the origins and ; the heroic achievement of his own nation, England; or maybe he'd be thinking a little broadly of Britain, which is England, Scotland and Wales.

这首史诗应该展示弥尔顿自己的祖国,英格兰的起源以及辉煌成就;,他想的范围可能更大一点，大不列颠，大不列颠包括英格兰，苏格兰和威尔士。

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And here, Machiavelli gives a list of those heroic founders of peoples and states Moses, Cyrus, Romulus, Theseus, and so on.

在此马奇亚维利给出,那些英勇建国,或曾领导人民的名单,包括摩西，居鲁士，罗慕洛斯和提修斯等人。

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It is the heroic ethic. At a certain place, I think a couple of places in the Iliad, Achilles tell's us, "Why did you come here to fight at Troy?"

这是一种英雄主义的伦理观,在某个地方,我认为在《伊利亚特》中这样的地方不少,阿基里斯告诉我们,"你为什么来到这里与特洛伊作战"

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He was long in choosing the subject of his heroic song and, as we know from all of -- and we've encountered a number of them - all of those protestations of delay Milton began his epic late.

他久久未能确定他要写的英雄之歌的主题，这我们从从弥尔顿多次声言,自己的史诗动笔很晚就能看出。

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He addresses instead the English language: "Hail native Language," Milton begins, and then he proceeds to set out in his heroic couplets of iambic pentameter a map for his future career as a famous poet.

反而写了英语这门语言：,开头写道，“为本土语言欢呼吧“,然后继续写他的五音部短长格对句,这是著名诗人对未来事业的规划。

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The plot around the simile is glorifying the heroic Satan here, and Hartman ingeniously locates throughout a number of Milton's similes this same dynamic of a redemptive counter-plot.

这个比喻中的情节在这里美化了英雄主义的撒旦，哈特曼非常精明地在弥尔顿的大量比喻中,布置了同样的拯救性的反计。

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So, this is a polytheistic society with heroic characteristics.

因此,这是个多神崇拜的社会,有着英雄式的人物

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