There's a second figure here standing ab extra, and that's the moon hovering overhead: "while over-head the Moon / sits Arbitress."

这里有第二个置身事外的角色，就是高高挂在空中的月亮：,“月亮高挂天心，像个公正的决断人“

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Hartman describes Milton's tendency in Paradise Lost, and he takes this term from Coleridge: the tendency to stand ab extra, to stand from outside.

哈特曼描述了弥尔顿在中的写作趋向，并且从柯勒律治那里借用了这个习语：,由外而内俯视自身的趋势。

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Hartman associates this image of Milton's standing ab extra with the figures in so many of those similes who seem also to be standing ab extra.

哈特曼把弥尔顿从外俯视的形象,和他众多的明喻中似乎也置身局外的形象,相联系进行思考。

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