Now Milton at the same time -- we're talking about the 1640s - had been contemplating writing a play.

弥尔顿在同一时期--17世纪40年代,-同时在考虑要写一部戏剧。

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It's at this point that Milton chose for the subject of his epic poem the subject of the tragedy that he'd been contemplating for so many years.

弥尔顿在这个时候决定用他多年来都在构思的,悲剧的主题作为他的史诗的主题。

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It's been drawn out and spatialized. It's as if it's been spatialized into a scene of a beautiful summer's day, and we're left contemplating not the punishment of evil but - I don't know, one of the things we're left contemplating is the sheer beauty of Homeric poetry.

这被描绘出并且空间化了，成为一个,美丽夏日的景象，我们被留予思考的,不是对邪恶的惩罚而是,-我不知道，我们被留予思考的,是荷马风格史诗的十足美好。

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