The rhetorical strategy that Milton uses to give us this perspective of eternity is what Geoffrey Hartman called Milton's counter-plot.

弥尔顿习惯于展现给我们的修辞性的手法,这种永恒的看法正是被哈特曼称为,弥尔顿的反策略。

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Square root of 16, and my plot basically shows it crosses at 4 and-- well, I think that's minus 4.

我的图清楚的显示这个函数,在4和-4两个点和x轴交合。

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The plot around the simile is glorifying the heroic Satan here, and Hartman ingeniously locates throughout a number of Milton's similes this same dynamic of a redemptive counter-plot.

这个比喻中的情节在这里美化了英雄主义的撒旦，哈特曼非常精明地在弥尔顿的大量比喻中,布置了同样的拯救性的反计。

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Plot, yes, we all agree that's the constructed-ness of the story.

情节是故事的构架。

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.. It's one thing to have-- it's not to say that the best-- if you want your life to be like the plot of a great story, it's not as though you think, " "All right, the denouement must occur at the very last page."

如果你拥有-,不是说最美好的生活-,如果你想让生活像美好的故事情节，它并不像你所想的，“好的，结局一定是在最后一页“

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