Milton anticipated and lovingly invested all of his energy in his future literary power and his future literary fame.

米尔顿预测到了他将来在文学领域的力量和声望,并且钟情的将他所有的精力投入到文学中。

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A seeming exception is the fact that sometimes individuals can, through the exertion of their influence and prestige, actually change the way we speak about things.

也许有一个例外，有人的确看上去能用个人声望和影响，左右我们说话的方式。

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Satan's saying that before the war in heaven, God's power just seemed like any other king's power, as if God sat on the throne of heaven merely because of those humanly constructed reasons of tradition, or of old repute or consent or custom.

撒旦是说在这场天上的大战之前，上帝的力量就和其他国王的力量一样，他坐在天堂的宝座上似乎仅仅是因为,人们自己营造的原因和传统，或者说是他过期的声望，他制定的法规以及约定俗成的规矩。

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