Hartman associates this image of Milton's standing ab extra with the figures in so many of those similes who seem also to be standing ab extra.

哈特曼把弥尔顿从外俯视的形象,和他众多的明喻中似乎也置身局外的形象,相联系进行思考。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We can think of it -- this is an anachronistic term -but increasingly leftist, and he's becoming one of those figures that we can now identify with this label of "Puritan."

我们可以想象-这里有一个时代有些错误的术语,但是他的确是越来越左派，并正在成为我们目前,贴上“清教徒“标签的标志人物之一“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

You can see this with public figures. Public figures who are viewed as competent but who pratfall, sometimes they are even more popular after the mistake. Okay?

这点可以在公众人物身上体现出来,他们能力卓越，但偶尔失态，有时，犯完错后，他们的人气蹿升？

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