It's too late for this to be a political poem, but Paradise Lost is late for all sorts of reasons.

要写一首政治诗歌太晚了，但弥尔顿这么晚才写《失乐园》有多方面的原因。

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There would have been a prevailing sense, and Milton has to have been sensitive to this, that it was simply too late to write an epic of any kind on any subject.

这很明显，弥尔顿肯定意识到了这一点，这个时候写史诗，不管写什么主题，都已经太晚了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

you're getting those.] There I had her; she yawned and responded: "It's late. I'm tired."

但愿你能领会），这下她半天没说话,过了会儿，她打着哈欠说，太晚了，我睡了“

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So there is not much point in giving homework that's late.

所以作业交太晚的话就没有什么意义了

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Well, I realize that for you guys it's too late, right?

我知道对你们来说这太晚了，不是吗？

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