They are subject to every conceivable kind of illusion, not to be trusted, and Socrates calls them liars.

他们都屈从于一切骗人的假象，不可被信赖，而苏格拉底则直截了当得说他们都是骗子。

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So for Stanley Fish, Milton is always reminding us of our fallen-ness as readers and we're continually being encouraged to submit all of our uncertainties and all of our doubts to the power of faith.

对费什来说，弥尔顿总是在提醒我们自身作为读者的,堕落，我们也不断的被激励着,屈从于自身的不确定和,对信仰的力量的犹疑。

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But it doesn't mean that I need to resign to my thoughts about that feeling.

但不代表,我要屈从于对那种感受的想法。

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There are only subjects, people who are subject either to a god, or to the king, or to a representative of the god, or to a chieftain or whoever, but somebody in a sense owns them all, but nobody owns a citizen.

那时只有所谓的臣民,也就是那些屈从于上帝,国王,代表上帝以及部落首领或者类似的人,从某种意义上讲,人们可以完全拥有臣民,但却无人拥有公民

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Now, one of the reasons why people would-- it's unthinkable for someone like me or for probably most of you to imagine giving up your rights to a kind of absolute rule, though we seem to be in a situation like that, where that's happened quite a lot recently, even in this own country.

我或者你们中绝大多数的人,很难想象会有这么多人,宁愿放弃自己的权利,而屈从于一种绝对王权的原因,尽管在我们国家,最近类似的事情层出不穷,让我们仿佛能够感同身受

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