Satan's shield is as big as the moon -this is the most common form of simile, epic or otherwise, and it can be schematized.

他的屏障如同月亮一般庞大,-这是最常见的比喻形式，并且还可以再用图表概要化。

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This parallel is The Epic of Gilgamesh I get to point this way now, to the boards, okay?

这个故事便是《吉尔伽美什史诗》,我应该指这边？

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After all, this is an extremely pious Puritan. But as late as the 1640s, this was not at all the epic subject that Milton was intending to use.

不管怎么说，弥尔顿是个很虔诚的清教徒，但是到了17世纪，40年代的时候，弥尔顿都根本没想过要写这个主题。

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This again is a book with epic, epic ambition.

而自己的著作更是具有史诗般的历史地位。

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It's to admit that this is in fact a late epic and that it derives from a close, studious, student-like imitation of the great epics of Homer and Virgil.

也就等于承认它事实上是一部晚期的史诗作品,是源自于雷同的，学究气的，小学生般的,对荷马与维吉尔写的伟大史诗的模仿。

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Consider that even this early on in his career, Milton is harboring epic ambitions, as we've seen.

弥尔顿在事业的早期，就拥有我们看到的诗歌抱负。

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We will hear again of Milton's intention to write an epic in a versified letter that he writes to his best friend, Charles Diodati. This is the letter to Diodati which Milton publishes as the Sixth Elegy.

我们又一次听到弥尔顿想写史诗,是在他给最好的朋友查尔斯，迪奥达蒂的一封信里，这就是那封信,弥尔顿以第六挽歌的名字出版。

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This is how Homer prepared himself to be the greatest and the first of all epic poets.

荷马就是这样来让自己成为最伟大的,并且是第一个史诗诗人。

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