It's possible that in merely reading and in merely amassing more and more knowledge, Milton's doing little more than the unprofitable servant in Matthew 25.

弥尔顿不可能,仅仅读书和积累知识，他所做的就像,马修25中的那个无益的仆人所做的一样。

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He was sent by his father to go to college.

他爸送他到大学读书。

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He didn't even begin to fulfill what we can think of as his epic promise until he was nearly fifty years old, until he had actually lost the use of his eyes, until he could no longer read, and until he could no longer use a pen to write.

但真正开始实行他要写史诗的愿望的时候,弥尔顿已经将近50岁了，那是他已经几乎,丧失了视力，不能再读书，不能执笔写作。

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