Now you'll remember from our discussion of the opening invocation to Paradise Lost, that insistent bid that Milton was making: the bid to be first.

现在从我们对失乐园开篇,的讨论中可以得知，弥尔顿一直坚持的是：,敢为天下先。

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And he continued to say, continued to train for years.

他坚持这么做，坚持练习，却一直失败。

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