Everyone agrees that what Milton is doing in the similes is educating the reader, the reader of this poem.

大家都同意弥尔顿想要通过这些直白的明喻,来教育这首诗的读者。

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There are at least two varieties of imagination in the reader's case, so let us see which of the two is the right one to use in reading a book.

读者至少有两种不同的想象方式,所以让我们来看看,哪一种,适合读书。

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The circuitous, logical route that we had to take in order to arrive at this new sense of Satan's size has everything to do with our status as temporally bound, temporally constrained readers.

我们需要经历一个迂回曲折的逻辑过程,来从新的意义上理解撒旦的高大,和我们目前处在的，作为世俗压制下的读者的地位，有着紧密的联系。

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Maybe it's an invitation to the reader to recognize that there is a better argument here than even the characters in the drama have noticed.

也许是要邀请读者,来辨别出,还有更好的论证,甚至连剧本里的人都注意到了。

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And in so far as it is possible for me, to try to preempt what that impact or effect might be in the sense of trying to figure out whether or not it will have an impact on you and what it might be.

只要有可能，我就会通过自己对诗歌的感受,来试图推断这首诗,是否会对读者产生冲击，会产生怎样的冲击。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So Nabokov imbues that state of impersonality with certain kinds of emotion and then asks the reader to be as impersonal as that modernist artist also must be.

所以纳博科夫用某些特定的情感,来营造非个人化的境界,让读者像现代主义艺术家那样非个人化。

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The reader should concentrate on the social, economic angle."

读者应该从社会和经济角度来审视“

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But then I ask them to think, and in the book I ask the readers to think: Well, have you given a cost of an expensive pair of shoes to save the life of one of the around 9 million children who are dying from poverty related causes each year around the world?

但是，接着我让他们思考，在书中，我让读者思考这样一个问题：,你有没有捐出过买一双鞋的钱,来拯救900万儿童中的一个生命？,他可能正因为贫困导致的种种问题,而生命垂危，每年世界上都会有这样的儿童？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So Milton will continually be saying in his prose tracts, "Oh! I just had an idea. Dear reader, before I go on, perhaps I should say something about myself. I need to explain something to you about where I'm coming from. You wonder who I am to tell you this?

所以弥尔顿会在他的散文中不停地说，“哦！我有一个主意，亲爱的读者，在我继续下去之前,也许我应该介绍下自己，我需要向你们,解释一下我从哪里来，你们会想我是谁呀？

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In other words, the effort of a reader in coming to terms with the meaning of a text is an effort to master the subject matter, what is there, what the text is really about.

也就是说读者为理解文本,做出的努力,就是来掌握事情本身，存在的努力，掌握文本究竟是关于什么的努力。

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