Milton's alluding to what he took to be the divinely inspired prophesy of Saint John the Divine that ends the New Testament.

弥尔顿的暗示是从,圣约翰的布道中启发的,他是那位完结了《新约》的神学家。

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He's almost a mythological figure who can sanction, who can authorize this revolution in women's writing that Virginia Woolf is beginning to prophesy here early in the twentieth century.

他是神话般的人物，可以批准，可以授权这场女性文学的革命，这场革命佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫,在20世纪早期就预言到了。

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