But it was also where often the demos or the ekklesia would meet to have meetings and holler at each other and have big debates.

但同时剧院也是成年男子,会面，聊天，辩论的地方。

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So I don't just mean it metaphorically, I also very often mean it literally.

所以我不只是在打比方，我也经常指的是字面意义。

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Paradise Lost as a whole clearly wants us to believe that God has foreknowledge and it also clearly wants us to believe that we have free will, but the similes seem just as often to open up and to question the poem's doctrinal conclusions.

整体来说很清楚地是想让我们相信,上帝具有先知的能力,并且还想让我们相信人生来有自由的意志，但是这些比喻看起来只是为我们揭露,并质疑了诗歌本身的学理上的总结。

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