But frankly, I'm convinced, insofar as I'm convinced of anything, that if one doesn't live by that, nothing of any interest is going to happen.

不过，坦率来讲，我相信，或者说，我确信，如果一个人不相信这一点，那么他的艺术创作只会平淡无奇。

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So since that's the easiest scenario, you can probably be sure it's not going to be too frequently that you're just given the energy, right, that might be too easy.

所以既然那是最简单的情况，你可以确信只给你提供能量值的,这种情况不太可能发生太多，对，因为那太简单了。

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And when you reread this poem and you look at it in your discussion section, you may want to think about the tenses it sounds tedious but I am convinced that it's not tedious the tenses of the verbs that Milton's using.

当你重新读这首诗,并在讨论时再看它的时候，你可能会思考它的时态,这听起来很乏味，但我确信,弥尔顿用的动词的时态一点都不乏味。

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