Now in these two books we've seen Milton dig up and discard just about the entire tradition of epic poetry.

现在在我们看到的两册书中弥尔顿,挖出并丢弃了所有史诗的传统。

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Now it's still going to be another twenty-five years before Milton writes the great epic, but Milton will no longer express the same degree of anxiety about under-preparation to write the great epic.

距他成为真正的史诗诗人,还有25年，但是弥尔顿不会再轻易表现出,关于创作史诗毫无准备的同等的焦虑了。

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There's naturally a lot of pressure on Milton to make this part of the simile beautiful and striking because he's echoing not just one epic poet, but essentially he's echoing just about every epic poet.

弥尔顿自然会感受到很多压力,必须得把这个比喻写的美丽动人,因为他不仅是在模仿一个诗人，实际上每个人史诗诗人都是他模仿共鸣的对象。

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The story of Adam and Eve and of the fall of Satan may strike us - having read or about to read Paradise Lost -- may strike us as a natural subject for Milton to have chosen for his epic poem.

弥尔顿选择了亚当夏娃以及撒旦的溃败的故事,作为他史诗的主题在我们看来--不管我们读过,还是将要读《失乐园》--都是很自然的。

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