"We investigated the case of a small businessman from Herakleion in Crete, who took his car, loaded it with tins of petrol, and first shot himself and then put fire to the whole car."

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It's one of the purposes of this poem to allow Milton to grow out of his infancy, to incarnate or to put actually into words the talent that he believes himself to possess.

还有一个目的就是,使弥尔顿自己不断成熟，把他相信自己所拥有的,天赋变为文字。

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And he said,to his credit, "no,without my principles I am just"-- as he put it rather indelicately and cruelly about himself-- "a fat man with a big limp."

令人钦佩的是,他说,"不,如果不守我的原则我就是"--,好像他本来不是那么粗野,那么残酷一样--,"一个大胖瘸子"

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