We find ourselves in today's reading, Areopagitica in the middle of the English Revolution, sometimes called the Puritan Revolution.

我们在今天的阅读中发现自己，《论出版自由》,在英国革命，也就是有时被称为清教改革，的过程中。

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And it's possible that the very idea of a Puritan poet presented Milton with what may have felt like an insoluble conflict.

成为清教徒诗人的想法可能,让弥尔顿感到一些不可调和的冲突。

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We can think of it -- this is an anachronistic term -but increasingly leftist, and he's becoming one of those figures that we can now identify with this label of "Puritan."

我们可以想象-这里有一个时代有些错误的术语,但是他的确是越来越左派，并正在成为我们目前,贴上“清教徒“标签的标志人物之一“

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All of Milton's expectations that England might actually be transformed, and they were glorious expectations, into something like a Puritan utopia or even a Puritan paradise -- all of that had been destroyed.

弥尔顿壮丽的期望，将英格兰转变成一个，清教徒乌托邦，甚至是清教徒天堂的期望,统统破灭了。

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The rest of contemporary history, including all of the stormy events leading up to Milton's own beloved Puritan Revolution, in which Milton himself, of course, had participated -all of that has been at least at the literal level, at the explicit level, expunged from the poem.

接下来的当代历史，包括所有引领着弥尔顿所钟爱的清教徒革命的,暴风性事件，在那场革命中，弥尔顿本人也参与其中,-所有那些至少在文义层面，在独立于本诗之外可说清的层面，都是很重要的。

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He's been sacrificed to the Puritan cause.

他成了新兴清教徒事业的牺牲品。

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