Faulkner's great writing days were over by the end of World War Two.

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So you can see in that passage Hobbes takes himself to be a moralist writing within the great tradition of moral philosophy.

所以在这一段中你可以看出,霍布斯自诩为道德学家,作品不超出道德思想伟大传统的范围。

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You wanted to be writing the great American novel, but you're not writing the great American novel.

你想书写伟大的美国小说，但你实际上不是在写小说。

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Milton -- and we know this -- Milton was a political revolutionary, and when he anticipated writing the great poem, he consistently imagined that it would be a poem on a nationalist theme.

弥尔顿--我们知道--是个政治革命家，一直以来他所预想的这首伟大诗歌，的主题应该是民族主义的。

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Climbing the alps, writing the great American novel, raising a great family that loves you, being creative.

比如攀登阿尔卑斯山，书写伟大的美国小说，建立一个充满爱意的家庭，让自己充满创意等等。

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Finally, Milton's poem is late by virtue of the simple fact that it's written in the form of an epic. An epic might have seemed like a great idea when Milton was nineteen, but by the time Milton gets actually around to writing it, it's an entirely superannuated, utterly outdated form.

最后，弥尔顿这么晚才写这首诗是因为,这是一首史诗，在弥尔顿19岁的时候,写首史诗看起来可能是个好主意，但到了弥尔顿真正要写的时候，史诗已经是一种完全落伍过时的诗体了。

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