There's naturally a lot of pressure on Milton to make this part of the simile beautiful and striking because he's echoing not just one epic poet, but essentially he's echoing just about every epic poet.

弥尔顿自然会感受到很多压力,必须得把这个比喻写的美丽动人,因为他不仅是在模仿一个诗人，实际上每个人史诗诗人都是他模仿共鸣的对象。

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There is that one place that every tourist goes to, but it's not really your country.

那个地方每个游客都会去，
但它却不能真实地代表你们的国家。

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So in Deuteronomy 5:2-3: "The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb . It was not with our fathers that the Lord made this covenant but with us, the living, every one of us who is here today."

那么在申命记5章2-3节耶和华我们的神在和烈山,与我们立约这约不是与我们祖先立的,乃是与我们今日在这里存活之人立的“

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If you have a bond with an interest rate of 4.375% -that's not an easy one to divide by two but you would get half of that every six months until maturity.

如果你持有一种利率为4.375%的债券,这个数除以2有点难算,而在债券到期前,每半年你能得到4.375%一半的券息

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