Milton has expended, we know, a considerable amount of energy in establishing what he wants us, I am assuming, to believe is the divine authority behind the poem.

我们知道弥尔顿花费了，大量精力阐释他希望我们相信的东西，我设想，他要我们相信在这部诗篇的背后有无上神权的存在。

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We're not interested in establishing a principle of value that shapes a canon.

我们对于建立起一个,用来确定标准的评价原则并不感兴趣。

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Even when he was a young boy Milton's Latin seems to have been impeccable, and he was quickly establishing himself as one of the best Latinists in the country.

当还是年轻孩子的时候，他的拉丁文看上去就已经毫无瑕疵了，而且他很快就证明了自己,是这个国家最好的拉丁语言学者之一。

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