In the grammatical sense, this word is the means or principal of predication whereby we say one thing is another thing: the mare is the female of the horse, for example.

从语法的角度来看，is这个词是,我们声明一个东西是另一个东西的方式或者？委托：,例如说，母马是马中的雌性。

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So you have two rather competing senses of the word "vocation" here, vocation as employment and vocation as a calling, and they're constantly for Milton bleeding into one another, these two senses of the word, and often struggling with one another or competing with one another.

所以现在有两个相互矛盾的“vocation“的含义，一个是工作，一个是神的召唤，弥尔顿经常把它们混淆起来，这个词的两种含义，它们经常,在他的内心挣扎，互相竞争。

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