Now you may remember what Geoffrey Hartman had argued that the moon represents the power of divine providence, and there's a lot of ways in which this reading makes sense.

你们可能还记得哈特曼曾经争论过,月亮代表的是神圣的天命的力量，有很多理解这段的方式都是有意义的。

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So, between 1650 and 1750, and this is right out of what you're reading, the rulers of continental Europe, of the biggest states extended their power.

所以从1650年到1750年这段时期,这正好与你们阅读的内容一致,欧陆上,统治者们扩张了他们的势力

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Power is something - and this is what we learn from a reading of John Milton - power is something that is created by a human process of deification, a process of king-worship or a process of God-worship or book-worship or a process, for that matter, of poet-worship.

力量是,-通过阅读弥尔顿我们就会知道,力量就是人们崇拜外物，不断将其神化的产物，这可能是对国王，上帝，或书本的崇拜,或者，就此而言，对诗人的崇拜。

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