Milton has his hero, Samson, bewailing the fact of his blindness: "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon irrecoverably dark, total eclipse without all hope of day!"

弥尔顿描写到自己崇拜的英雄参孙悲叹自己失明：,黑暗，黑暗，黑暗，在正午的光辉中,无法改变的黑暗，黯然的没有一点希望“

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and almost, I'd say, almost not a day goes by without somebody asking me,

我想说，几乎没有哪次我经过没有人来问路，

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It used to be the case that-- well I mean my guess is that very few of you probably go through a day without interacting with a water bottle at some point.

以前的情况是,我是说,我猜在座很少有人经历过,一整天不带水壶的日子

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But on the other hand these advances have also come at a cost. And in this story there's also a sense of longing for the freedom of life in the wild--the innocent, simple, uncomplicated life lived day to day without plans, without toil, in harmony with nature Edenic a somewhat Edenic existence.

但是，换个角度来看，人类付出了代价,才得到这些优点，在这部史诗中，同样存在着,对一种纯真，简单，纯粹生活的向往,每天生活中没有计划，辛劳，与自然和平相处,就像以前的。

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