The only precedent Milton would have had even for the idea of line numbers would have been the great ancient classics, the magnificent Renaissance editions of Homer and Virgil.

弥尔顿曾经的唯一一个范例，甚至是印上行数的想法,都将是伟大的古老杰作，是荷马和维吉尔伟大的再生版。

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Yeah, yeah. So, basically in Classics, we read sort of great works in Greek and Latin and discuss them.

好，行。我主修古典文学，我们要阅读希腊语和拉丁语的名著然后讨论。

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And the other books are, in their own way, sort of classics that you'll enjoy.

其他的书,从他们本身角度来讲,算是一种你们会喜欢的经典

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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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So not that I know what the classics are, but I know when I see it.

我并不是很懂古典艺术，但看到的时候我能分辨出来。

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