How can you write an original poem when your literary consciousness is essentially made up of the memory of all the things that you've read before?

你怎么能说自己写的是原创的诗,当你的文思,主要是由你以前阅读积累下的记忆,组合成的呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's a good sort of question that gets raised in such a problematic allusion: how do you set out to write an original poem within such a conventional genre like the epic?

对于这样一项有问题的引用,提出这些问题是很好的：,你怎么能开始写一篇标榜原创的诗作,却使用史诗这一传统的文体呢？

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Some scholars theorize that the ritual purity system reflects an original concern with health or hygiene.

一些学者建立理论，认为宗教仪式的纯度系统,反映了原始的对于健康或卫生的关注。

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It never lost entirely its original character as an insurgent movement, independent of the state and hostile to it, making claims that challenge the secular authority.

它从来没有失去充满,反抗精神的本原色,它独立于国家并与之格格不入,公然向世俗权威发起挑战

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Milton's own faculty of memory - this is the idea that I'm going to be floating here - seems to provide something like, or pose a stumbling block or an obstacle for, his attempt to write an original, divinely inspired poem.

在这里我想说,弥尔顿自己的记忆系统,似乎想提供某种东西，或者想在他写出一部原创的，伟大的诗作的尝试上设置一个障碍。

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