It's a set of images that couldn't be more foreign or more alien to the prophetic mode of the Old Testament prophets.

这是一组不能再背离旧约先知的形象的,一组比喻了。

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because your mind is already in that mode of bringing ideas from concept to something a little bit more concrete.

因为你的大脑已经处在能把概念转化为比较具体的实物的模式中了。

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He's introducing the reader to a mode of vision different from the vision typically permitted him from within the poem's more or less straightforward, linear, narrative boundaries.

他在向读者介绍一种不同于这首诗里,直白的线状叙述的界限,或多或少已经容许他，显露出的设想有所不同的先见之明。

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There's just one more thing you need to know about this phalanx mode of fighting.

关于这种方阵模式的战斗,还有一点需要你们知道

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Why can't he write love poetry, secular poetry, instead of this much more disciplined, much more difficult mode of sacred and prophetic poetry ? that he seems already to have wedded himself to?

为什么不写爱情诗，世俗的诗，而是这些,拘束难写的庄严的充满套路的,他似乎长久以来一直都在写的诗呢？

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It's as if Milton places the beautiful poetry of Shakespeare into the mouth of this evil magician so as to dismiss all the more easily the easy, L'Allegro-mode of poetry that Shakespeare seems for Milton to embody.

这就好像弥尔顿把莎士比亚美丽的诗句,放进了邪恶魔术师的口中,所以可以更容易地反驳，好像莎士比亚把L’Allegro模式诗给弥尔顿去具体化。

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