But the most central act of eating, of course, in Milton's great epic obviously has nothing to do with angels.

但最重要的吃的行为当然，弥尔顿最伟大的叙事诗显然和天使无关。

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Milton is adamant throughout the epic in his insistent imagining Adam and Eve quite specifically as a married couple - and a married couple -- and this is important to Milton -- a married couple with an active sex life.

弥尔顿在他的叙事诗中坚定不移的认为,作为已婚的夫妇，亚当和夏娃,已婚的夫妇--这一点对弥尔顿来说很重要-,有频繁性生活的夫妇。

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Those are plays though, and all English narrative poems, including all of Shakespeare's narrative poems, they had all been written in rhyme, either long verse paragraphs of rhymed heroic couplets or in intricately rhymed stanzas.

但那些是戏剧，所有的英语叙事诗，包括所有莎士比亚的叙事诗，都是押韵的，不管是英雄双韵体的大段诗篇,还是精巧押韵的诗节。

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If you're not taking notes in this lecture, you have to write down at least one sentence. You must write this down because this will be the most important thing I say all morning: Milton's Paradise Lost is the first narrative poem in English that didn't rhyme.

就算你们这堂课不记笔记，也一定要记下至少一句话，一定要把这记下来,这是我一早上说的最重要的一句话了：,弥尔顿的《失乐园》是,第一首不押韵的英语叙事诗。

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