Some are very tall. Yet all are below the level of an observer on the edge, looking over.

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We have already encountered on some level the importance of the figure of eating to John Milton. Think of Comus.

我们已经在某种程度上见识到了,对于弥尔顿来说吃的形象的重要性，想想司酒宴之神。

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On some level, forgetfulness would just ease the grievousness of this miserable new psychological dynamic with which they are tormented.

在某种程度上，遗忘可以缓解痛苦,这痛苦来自于新的悲惨的心理变化,他们为此备受折磨。

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And nine months later, they leave honor above great level, begging for some more work and wanting to hang out with you on the weekend.

九个月后，他们成绩优异，恳求更多作业,希望与你共度周未。

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Well,in the same way,if we could find some behavior on our part that calls out for explanation, that the best possible explanation would be that at some level we don't believe we're going to die, then we might say,look, this gives us some reason to think that we don't really believe we're going to die, even though we say we believe it.

同样，如果我们发现自己有些行为有待解释，这最好的解释可能就是,在某种程度上，我们不相信自己会死，然后我们说，看，这让我们有理由相信，我们并不相信我们会死，即使我们口头上说相信。

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Not only now, but, I think, on some level it has always struck some of its readers as ludicrous.

不仅是在现在，我觉得，一直以来都有读者,会觉得这是荒唐可笑的。

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Milton is alluding so unashamedly here to Spenser's Errour because, I think, on some level he wants to brand Spenserian allegory as an erroneous literary practice.

弥尔顿是如此厚颜无耻地引用斯潘塞的“错误“因为，在某种程度上他想标榜斯潘塞的寓言,是文学上的一个错误尝试。

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Fish imagines Milton as always on some level slapping the reader's wrist, reminding the reader of his or her fallen-ness, that there's a constant pedagogical correction going on.

费什想象弥尔顿总是在某种程度上斥责着读者们，提醒他们自身的堕落，并且诗中有一种持续的教育性的纠正在重复出现。

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Now, it's Milton's annotators who tell us that the word prevent means "to come before, to anticipate," and on some level it obviously means that and that goes without question.

弥尔顿的注解告诉我们阻止一词的含义,“在某人之前到达，预期“,从某种程度上说它就是那个意思，这毫无疑问。

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With the scene of the flight of the pagan gods at the nativity of Christ Milton is also depicting a scenario that, I think, on some level he's hoping will occur within himself.

在《圣诞清晨歌》中有一个无宗教信仰的人逃跑的画面,我认为弥尔顿同时也在描绘一个剧情，某种程度上他希望这样的事情也会发生在自己身上。

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If you did that, on some level, I think, you were absolutely right, even though you were utterly misconstruing the logic of the argument.

如果你那么做了，我认为在某种程度上你们是绝对正确的,即使你们完全理解错了这论证里面的逻辑。

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They're invariably cited as among the most beautiful and exquisite lines in Paradise Lost but on some level they've proven the bane of scholars because they can't be squared with any of the poem's theological message.

它们被单调地引证为,中最美最细致的诗句,但在某些层面他们证明了学者的祸害,因为它们并不能与诗歌所传达的神学信息相一致。

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On some level this is textbook Protestant or Catholic Christianity.

这几乎是新教或天主基督教的教科书。

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The Presbyterians needed to halt the endless generation of dangerous religious propaganda and continued what they felt on some level was the continued metastasis of Protestant sects.

长老派需要停止无穷无尽不断产生的,危险的宗教宣传,继续他们认为的在一定程度上,继续转移的清教徒派系。

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One of the most intriguing aspects of this amazing passage is the fact that the fragmentation that Milton is describing, and on some level even enacting, is something that he seems to be celebrating here.

这令人惊奇的一段中最吸引人的地方就是,弥尔顿描述的或是在一定程度，上演绎的碎片，似乎是他在这里赞颂的部分。

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On some level that's just the human condition.

在某种程度上，人就是这样的。

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