This is eternity here.

这是永恒。

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The rhetorical strategy that Milton uses to give us this perspective of eternity is what Geoffrey Hartman called Milton's counter-plot.

弥尔顿习惯于展现给我们的修辞性的手法,这种永恒的看法正是被哈特曼称为,弥尔顿的反策略。

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No friend that I've ever talked with is one that I actually would want to spend eternity talking to.

我交谈过的朋友中没有一个,是我想与之永远交谈的。

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Every day is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!

每天都是不朽，人人都是天使！

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This image of the afterlife is founded on the orthodox figure for eternity. The body stays to the earth while the soul, like the day-star, rises to the sky.

关于来生的这幅画面是建立在正统基督教,对永生的信仰上的，肉体归于泥土,灵魂却会像启明星一样升上天空。

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For Hartman, the Miltonic simile actually permits the reader something like the perspective of eternity, a divine perspective, and of course, this is exactly what Stanley Fish had told us was impossible.

对他而言，弥尔顿式的比喻实际上使得读者能够,得知一些类似于永恒的透视，一个神圣的看法，当然，这是据费什所有，不可能的事情。

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Then we read, or at least we think we read, that Satan's spear is small, and then we realize over the course of this reading process that Satan's spear is unimaginable, and we realize that our time-bound mode of knowing is ultimately inadequate to understand anything about the inscrutable truths of eternity: this is according to Fish.

然后又读到，至少我们认为读到，撒旦的长矛又很小，接着我们意识到了在阅读的过程中,撒旦的长矛实际上是不可想象的，并且我们被特定时代拘束的理解模式,是不足以理解任何,有关永恒的难以预测的真相的：,这是费什告诉我们的道理。

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And it's of course possible to say, well, just imagine a friend that you would want to talk through all eternity to. But the whole point is, I can't imagine what that would be like.

当然可以说，想象一个你想与之,永远长谈的朋友，但问题是，我无法想象那种情景。

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