Milton has dug up a gem from the pages of The Iliad, and this gem has something like a Medusa effect on the poem or perhaps on us as readers. Time almost seems to stop when we begin appreciating this image solely on aesthetic grounds.

弥尔顿从《伊利亚特》中挖出了一块瑰宝，这块瑰宝对于诗或我们读者起得作用,如同美杜莎一样，在我们只欣赏着,精美绝伦的地面上的场景时，时间仿佛停止。

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And later on, when we stop giving ourselves the permission to be human when the become so important, we begin to realize that other people are watching us and evaluating us constantly and we think they do so much more than they actually do.

后来当我们停止准许自己为人时,当表象变得很重要时，当我们开始发觉其他人在看我们时,时刻评价我们时,人们远没我们以为的那么注意我们。

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