No English poet before Milton ever suggested that he had been chosen by God at birth to be a poet.

在弥尔顿之前没有英国诗人敢说,自己是被上帝选中去做诗人的。

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as we've seen, establishing a fiction that works to place himself at the scene of a nativity that obviously occurs 1600 years and change before his own birth.

我们也看到了，他创建了一个虚构的景象,把自己放进了基督诞生的幻景中,而这些比他出生早1600年发生并不断在改变。

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Hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, Homer described the fate of the companions of Odysseus who were transformed by a witch into pigs.

在公元前几百年,荷马这样描述奥德赛的几个同伴的命运,一个女巫将他们变成了猪

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But we can only remember, he thinks, in the relevant way if our soul existed before the birth of our body, before the creation of our body.

但是我们之前知道,他认为我们的灵魂,存在于我们的身体诞生之前,在我们的身体被创造之前

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Remember our concern isn't straightly speaking with the question did the soul exist before our birth, did the soul exist before our bodies, but rather is the soul is immortal.

记住我们关注的并非是,对以下问题之前的回答,即灵魂是否先于出生而存在，灵魂是否先于身体而存在，而是灵魂是否不朽。

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What we need to really become convienced of the immortality of the soul even if we were convinced, is not the mere suggestion that the soul was around before our birth.

能真正说服我们,灵魂是不朽的,即使我们承认灵魂不朽，并不仅仅是因为,灵魂存在于出生之前这样的推测。

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Earlier the objection was, We had no good reason to think the soul was one of the building blocks from which we're composed; we have no good reason to think it's one of the pieces that was around before our body got put together, before our birth.

早一点的反驳意见是,我们没有好的理由来相信灵魂,是组成我们的一个基础部件,我们没有好的理由去相信它是,在我们出生前,身体形成前就存在的部分之一

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