People--you've all studied Hamlet, "to be or not to be." That's all I know but basically he was deciding-- he--I wrote this down though.

你们都学过《哈姆雷特》,我只知道一句“生存还是死亡”,这句话是说他正在决定-,我把这写下来了。

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It's just this kind of rhetorical trick that Milton uses - so many rhetorical tricks like this that Milton will use throughout the poem -- that led Dr. Johnson to say in utter exasperation, but admiration, that "Milton wrote no language": this isn't English that Milton is writing here.

正是弥尔顿使用的这种修辞手法,-弥尔顿全诗使用了大量这样的修辞手法,-让约翰逊博士懊恼而又钦佩的说，“弥尔顿所写不是语言“,弥尔顿这里写的不是英语。

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