We have already encountered on some level the importance of the figure of eating to John Milton. Think of Comus.

我们已经在某种程度上见识到了,对于弥尔顿来说吃的形象的重要性，想想司酒宴之神。

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The lady's refusal to drink of Comus' cup was just the first of Milton's attempts to bring the action of ingestion to the very center of a literary work.

拒绝司酒宴之神的杯子的女士,是弥尔顿第一次尝试把摄取食物的行动,注入到文学作品的中心去。

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