Time and again, the American people have suffered because people in Washington played the politics of the moment instead of putting the interests of the American people first,".

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I first started teaching this course in the late 1970s and 80s when literary theory was a thing absolutely of the moment.

我在20世纪七八十年代时开始教这门课,当时文学理论非常流行。

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This is the first moment that the poet John Milton is actually speaking in his own voice, and he's speaking directly to us.

这是第一次诗人弥尔顿,在以本尊的声音做着叙述，并且是在直接的向我们叙述。

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Now this isn't the first time in this course that I've paused over a moment at a crossroads where you can't possibly take both paths but where it is obviously very, very difficult to make up one's mind.

现在是这个课程中第一次,在一个分叉路口停下,我们不可能同时走两条路,但是这也显然是非常难以决定的一个地方。

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