Milton's similes are notoriously difficult as you no doubt have already experienced.

弥尔顿的明喻众人皆知的,非常难懂，正如你们已经领教过的。

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And, in fact, a computer program has come up with a proof that, as far as was known, nobody in the world had ever come up with before.

而实际上,电脑程序的证明方式,据目前所知,是前人们从未曾提出过的

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As far as I know, he doesn't publish he's not in the newspapers, but he's gotten the ear of the Treasury Secretary They spent many weekends together figuring out what should be done about the system and they wrote up a proposal.

据我所知，他从没出过书,也没有上过新闻，但他却有当财政部长的潜质,他花了数周的时间来搞清楚,对于现在的美国金融体系,该怎么改革然后书写成书。

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