Now in these two books we've seen Milton dig up and discard just about the entire tradition of epic poetry.

现在在我们看到的两册书中弥尔顿,挖出并丢弃了所有史诗的传统。

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And then the rest of the epic contains the adventures of these two close friends, all of the things that they do together.

余下的故事，围绕着这两个亲近的朋友的,冒险旅程展开，他们形影不离。

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in his great depiction of hell in Books One and Two) to avoid the standard epic scenes of the torture of the damned, for example, with which we're familiar if we've read Homer or Virgil or, of course, Dante much later.

在他第一和第二册书对地狱的精彩描述）,去避免提及传统史诗中关于恶者被折磨的场景，例如我们所熟悉的那些场景,如果我们读过荷马的，维吉尔的，当然还有但丁的作品。

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I hope you remember from the Sixth Elegy, the Sexta Elegia, that we read a few classes ago that Milton had told his friend Charles Diodati ; that an aspiring epic poet should only drink water; ; two, should refrain from eating meat; and three, should keep his body chaste.

我希望你们还记得《Sexta，Elegia》的第六挽歌,我们前几课读的，讲弥尔顿跟他的朋友查尔斯说,一个有抱负的史诗诗人应该只记得喝水;,二，应该避免食肉;,三，应该保持自己身体的纯洁。

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