One of these little details that Milton has lifted rather directly is that of the river Lethe, the river of oblivion that was believed to flow in the underworld.

其中弥尔顿直接盗用的一个小细节,是遗忘之河，即忘川,忘川被认为在地狱流淌。

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And he says, I don't, "No one really knows where the Nile River starts."

他说，“我不，没人真的知道尼罗河的源头到底在哪里。”

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And,so,instead of having where before you had something like one- hundred tolls you had to pay on the Loire River, if you're transporting some goods, they eliminate all those tolls, they try to create uniform weights and measures, and that'll take one-hundred years before that really works.

相对于从前,诸如你想,通过卢瓦尔河运输货物,你必须支付一百元的过路费,他们取消了所有此类收费,他们尝试建立统一的度量单位,这些想法在一百年之后才得以实现

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So,if you take number one--but we don't have to go through them all and I assure you we won't--if you take number one, the Ain,a-i-n,it's named after a river; or if you take number two,the Aisne,a-i-s-n-e, it's named after a river; and how many hundreds of thousands of people died along there in World War One or,you take number three,the same thing,Allier.

如果你看第一个省,我向你们保证,我们不用挨个了解,看第一个省,安省,a-i-n,来自一条河的名字,或是第二个埃纳省,a-i-s-n-e,来自于一条河的名字,有成千上万的人在这里死于,第一次世界大战,第三个,阿列省

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