Her aim is to get along in a world that is dominated by shifting forces that can be registered and reacted to by poetry, but not explained.

她的目的是通过诗歌所能记录，达到却不能解释的,变幻莫测的力量,来和被统治的世界相处。

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It was Galileo's job, you'll remember, with his telescope to detect the otherwise undetectable spots and imperfections in this seemingly, but only seemingly, perfect moon.

你们还记得，通过望远镜，观测到这个看起来，却只是看起来完美无缺的,月亮上的黑点和缺陷，是伽利略要做的。

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You can train it to flap its wings to escape a situation but it's very difficult to get it to flap its wings for food.

你可以训练鸽子,通过扇动翅膀来脱离某个情境,但却很难通过训练鸽子扇动翅膀来进食。

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And those cases are the dramatic exception and they do tell you something.

这些例子都是极为特殊的,但我们却能通过它们了解一些事情

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Milton actually wrote that it was the duty, not just the right but the duty, of a nation to rise up and dethrone through execution an unjust, though legitimate, king.

弥尔顿实际上写道，站起来通过处决而废黜，一个尽管合法却不公正的国王是一个国家的义务,不仅仅是权利，而且还是义务。

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