Milton seems to have dug around rather carefully in his copy of the Faerie Queene, and he's come up with this illusion.

弥尔顿似乎极其小心地模仿着《仙后》,且他出现了这样一种幻想。

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This doesn't happen, but at the same time it's a world of illusion in which the reader lives all too comfortably. Right?

这些不会发生，但是同时这是一个幻境,读者太舒适地生活于其中，对吧？

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Milton wants to create the illusion that he's predicting, or that he's prophesying, the actions recounted in the poem, as if Milton were prophesying what of course we know to be already past.

弥尔顿想给我们一种他在预言，诗中所叙之事的感觉，似乎他是在预言这些我们都知道已经发生了的事情。

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It's a powerful psychological, you might say, illusion-- people think they want money when, in fact, they should want real goods and services.

你可能会说，这是一种，强烈的心理错觉-,人们认为他们需要货币时，实际上，他们想要的是实物以及服务。

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Well, when people are in an absurd situation their minds rationalize it by inventing a comfortable illusion."

当人们陷入一种很荒谬的情况时“,”他们就会想出一个理由来使这种情况变得合理“

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and the illusion was that they didn't see what is right in front of their very eyes, which is the potential inherent in every single student.

幻象是他们看不到,就在他们眼前的东西，即每个学生都有潜力。

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Maybe it's illusion in some thoughts.

它可能只是产生于某些思想的幻觉。

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In other words, an illusion is created; a never-never land is created.

换言之，幻觉形成的时候，幻境就形成了。

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We know it's an illusion, but we get to live in it so comfortably with so little alteration of the nature of the illusion or of the way in which we negotiate the illusory world, that it becomes kind of womb-like and cozy.

我们知道那是幻觉，但是我们活在其中，如此舒适地,基本不去改变幻觉的本质,也不改变我们在这个幻境中生活的方式，它变得如子宫般安全舒适。

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Quasi-magical thinking is an illusion that they documented that occurs regularly in people, which they might deny if asked about, but there's an illusion that I can control randomness through my willpower.

准神奇式思考是一种错觉,会定期在人们的思维中出现,他们也许会否认这点,但的确存在一种错觉,使人误以为可以通过意志力控制随机事件

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