Everything that we had thought that Milton was telling us in the lyric present -- telling us directly, now -- suddenly gets shoved back into the narrative past: "thus sang the uncouth swain." The past tense is important there.

我们想过的弥尔顿在这首抒情诗里,直接告诉我们的所有事，现在，都突然在过去的旁白中一涌而现了：,“吟唱着粗鄙的青年人“，这里的过去时态很重要。

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Yeah, over the past 2 years I've been back and forth in Brazil.

是，过去两年我来来回回去了巴西好多次。

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He said that for me that the myth of the past is a golden age, that he always harking back to occur in Grand Detour in Illinois.

他说对于他来说,过去之谜就是一段黄金时间，就是他经常,出现在伊利诺伊州Grand，Detour时。

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