There are some important signs, I think, especially in the first two books of Paradise Lost of what we can think of as Milton's - it's a literary fantasy, a literary fantasy of forgetfulness.

我认为有一些重要的迹象，尤其是在,《失乐园》的前两册书中,从那里我们可以思考弥尔顿之所想,这是一次对于遗忘的文学幻想。

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Now if he was too stupid to have it, then of course he would have been liberated into the realm of action.

如果他因为太愚昧而不能有这种幻想，那么当然他能自由行动。

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And while it would be ridiculous for us to read the entire mask as the poet's own completely unfettered autobiographical fantasy, a Miltonic set of interests and a Miltonic set of anxieties charging and fueling this work.

虽然要我们读完整篇文章有点荒谬,因为诗人的自传幻想太无拘无束了，这个作品有弥尔顿式的嗜好,和弥尔顿式的焦虑控诉及刺激因素。

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You can very quickly drive yourself nuts by sitting down, thinking, oh, I can write this program, no sweat, and then you write it and then there's a tiny little mistake here, but then there's a tiny little mistake here and here, and all of these stupid little things cascade until you try running your program, and the thing just doesn't work.

如果你只是仅仅干坐着，不费吹灰之力，凭空幻想着我可以把这个项目搞定，你会想地发疯的，也许你会写出一点东西出来，可能会有一点点错误,紧接着这或那又出现一点小错误，这些小错误一点一点地堆积了起来,直到你开始运行你整个项目，你会发现这堆东西根本就不工作。

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Far more unrealistic would be the belief of those who argue, and I'm thinking here of names like Immanuel Kant and others from the eighteenth and nineteenth century, that one day we can abolish war altogether, and therefore abolish the passions that give rise to conflict and war.

不切实际,将是那些争辩者的信念，就像康德或其它,十八及十九世纪的思想家，幻想有一天我们可以全面终止战争，进而废除,引起冲突与战争的激情。

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I was either at the right time too stupid or too intelligent to have it.

我现在既不是太明智也不是太愚昧因而不能有这种幻想。

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Now we might agree that this's a reasonable enough fantasy of female invulnerability but of course there is nothing in our sad experience with sexual menace that actually bears the theory behind this fantasy out.

现在我们可能会同意,这里有个很合理的幻想，即女性不会受到伤害,但当然，在这个幻想背后，性骚扰的遭受,使没有东西支持这个理论。

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