He's able to justify the ways of God to men here on the physical - on this intimately bodily earth.

弥尔顿得以从这具体的物质的人间的角度,证明了上帝待人之法。

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And by this time all educated Roman men were expected to be able to speak Greek, well if possible.

那时所有受过教育的罗马男子,有可能的话，都要会说希腊语。

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Milton wants to arrive in Bethlehem to hand Christ his poem before the wise men are able to bring their gold and their frankincense and their myrrh.

他想到达伯利恒把他的诗歌亲手交给基督,在术士们拿走他们的黄金,乳香精油和没药树之前。

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And then he makes some comments about how,well, ; he could never pick cotton fast enough; he's just not able to do it as black men are.

于是他对采棉花进行了一些评价，他觉得自己永远没法采摘的够快;,没法像那些黑人一样迅速。

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To the extent that Lycidas' body has been recovered, that it's been redeemed, Milton is able -- perhaps successfully, Milton is able to justify the ways of God to men.

利西达斯的身体最终愈合了，被救赎了，这样弥尔顿就得以--或许是成功的，证明了上帝待人之法。

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Even though there were people, mostly young men, willing and able to read to him, it's clear that the vast quantity of learning that gets poured - all of that erudition that gets poured into the pages of Paradise Lost - it's clear that this is not a product of Milton's last-minute review of the classics.

尽管有很多人，大多数是年轻人，愿意将材料读给他听，很显然这使得大量的知识被注入,所有这些广博的知识被注入到《失乐园》的字里行间,但很显然这不是,弥尔顿在最后一分钟对于古典文献回顾的产物。

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