Now in the middle years of the seventeenth century during the English revolution that saw the execution of the king and saw the establishment of a non-monarchic republican government, Milton had practically invented the formal language, the literary language, of insubordination.

7世纪中期,英国革命期间，国王被处决,一个非君主制的共和国政府建立了起来，弥尔顿实际上创造出了一套正式词汇，一套用来表述“反抗“的文学词汇。

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And it's this rhetoric of anticipation, this language of looking forward, that structures all of Milton's own narratives about his own literary career.

正是这种预期修辞学，这种期待的文字，构建了所有弥尔顿的自述,和他自己的文学事业。

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In the first passage, the statement about language by criticism, that sign and meaning can never coincide, is what is precisely taken for granted in the kind of language we call "literary."

在第一段，关于语言的主张，用批判的方式，认为符号和意思永远不能相矛盾，正是这个主张,被人们认为是理所当然的，对于我们所说的文学语言来说“

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That's a limiting case, but for the most part language that we use is not like that and therefore, what we think of is that literary should in principle also be able to show itself in something that is visual.

那是个很局限性的案例，但是总的来说，我们使用的语言,并不是那样,因此，我们所认为的文学的东西,原则上也应当能展示,一些视觉上的东西。

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Zooey That thread of the mystical quality of language at its extreme of literary power is what I drew out of Franny and Zooey.

我所描述的Franny和,正是那种语言的神秘色彩，处于它极端的艺术感染力。

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The language of Homer and of Virgil and of Pindar and of Ovid had become an inextricable part of his literary imagination and of his consciousness in general.

荷马，维吉尔，品达尔和奥维德的语言,成为弥尔顿文学想象还有文学觉悟中,无法摆脱的一部分。

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