This is where evaluation comes in. The success or failure of a poem depends on the realization of meaning.

这时就需要评估介入了，一首诗好与坏,取决于它含义表达是否清晰。

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It's a transition, an evaluation of marriage that is not at all an easy one, however. There are debates.

这是一种转变，对婚姻的评价,那并不是一个简单的转变，当时也有争论。

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That's an evaluation. That's a judgment but it's not a moral judgment. Why not?

这是一个评价，一个判断,但不是道德判断，为什么不是？

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You remember in the first lecture I said there's a difference between the history of criticism and theory of literature, one difference being that the history of criticism has a great deal to do with literary evaluation: that is to say, why do we care about literature and how can we find means of saying that it's good or not good?

你们还记得吗，第一节课我说过,文学评论历史和文学理论有一个重大区别，那就是文学评论的历史,很大程度上与文学评估有关：,意思就是我们为什么要关心文学,还有我们怎么能说一部作品是好还是坏？

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Now I raise the matter of Satan's critique of God's power because the evaluation and the criticism of Milton, and especially of Milton's poetry, has hinged for a couple of centuries now on a related set of questions about this poet's power.

我提出撒旦批评上帝力量的问题,因为对弥尔顿的评价和批判，尤其是对他的诗的评判，几世纪以来,一直与一些与他的力量相关的问题纠结在一起。

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Half of them receive a kind of unfavorable evaluation.

而另一半的结果不容乐观。

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