You may remember that I had suggested in the lecture on the Nativity Ode that Milton may have thought of his career as if it were something like a race.

你们可能记得我在的演说中,曾经设想的，弥尔顿或许把他的职业,看作无休止的竞赛与追逐。

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He is of the same race as the gods, and at the same time his life is short and death is final, and death is bad.

人类和神同祖同宗,然而同时人类的生命是短暂的,死亡就是终点,而死亡是不好的

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