It's in this period that Milton increasingly begins to adopt, or assume, Saint Peter's confident and denunciatory rhetoric.

就是在这段时间弥尔顿越来越接受，去采用，圣彼得的有信心的责难似的语言。

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So in this guise with the mask of Saint Peter on he's -- Milton's -able to be both poet and minister.

因此在圣彼得的面具掩盖下,弥尔顿能够身兼诗人和牧师的双重职责。

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This is decidedly the last of all the funeral mourners, and Peter provides Milton's poem with an important element of finality, of closure.

毫无疑问这是最后一名哀悼者，彼得给弥尔顿的诗带来了一种重要的终局性，最终章的结尾。

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It's almost as if the flower passage is Milton's reward for having written the Saint Peter passage.

似乎描写花朵的段落是对于弥尔顿,描写过圣彼得的章落之后的奖赏。

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But John Milton is also recompensed and, by the weird sacrificial logic that Saint Peter has already sketched out for us, you can see a really disturbing way in which Milton has benefited as well.

但是在圣彼得铺陈开来的诡异的牺牲逻辑下,弥尔顿也得到了回报，你会看到弥尔顿从中得益的方式,确实非常让人困惑。

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Eight years after its initial composition, Milton looks back at this elegy, rereads it, and picks out the Saint Peter passage on the corrupted clergy as that specific feature of the poem worth singling out and introducing.

在第一版出版的8年后，弥尔顿重新审视了这首挽歌，把圣彼得关于腐朽教会的篇章,单独挑出来并作了介绍。

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