AMD is the leading cause of blindness among adults fifty and older.

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It's not until Book Three, until after Milton presents his heroic portrait of Satan and his heroic portrait of the fallen angels when he establishes the fact of his blindness.

直到第三卷弥尔顿呈现,他对撒旦和降落的天使们的英勇形象后,他才证实自己失明的事实。

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Milton has his hero, Samson, bewailing the fact of his blindness: "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon irrecoverably dark, total eclipse without all hope of day!"

弥尔顿描写到自己崇拜的英雄参孙悲叹自己失明：,黑暗，黑暗，黑暗，在正午的光辉中,无法改变的黑暗，黯然的没有一点希望“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, it's motivated by a huge blindness about the racial history of the United States in any of its detail. That sense of the oneness, I think, points to why and how he makes that illusion, the oneness.

所以这是由对美国种族历史,及其细节部分的极大无知所推动的，这样的一种同一性，我想表明了他为什么及怎样产生了那一幻觉，那种同一性。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And the dominant problems concern consist of a lack of social connectedness, problems with language, problems dealing with people, and more generally, a problem of what the psychologist, Simon Baron-Cohen has described as "mind blindness."

主要症状包括缺乏社会联系,语言障碍,社交障碍,总而言之,会产生一种心理学家西蒙·伯龙·科恩,称之为"精神性盲"的症状

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Milton's blindness, the fact of his blindness, has shut out his view of the visible world, which would ordinarily present itself to him through the entrance of his eyes; and this shut-out will enable him, will help him, explore the invisible world of divine truth.

弥尔顿的失明，他失明的这个事实，遮住了,他看具体世界的目光，他通常是通过双眼,这个通道来看具体世界的，不过这种蒙蔽帮助了他，使他能够探索不可见世界中的神圣真理。

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