Does Milton only seem powerful because he has the force or the strength of the age-old literary canon behind him?

他之所以看起来充满力量,是因为身后的作品被人们奉为文学经典呢？

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Most of us most of the time hold these beliefs as a matter of faith as a matter of belief because we have learned about them from childhood because they were written by Thomas Jefferson or some other reputed high authority.

大部份的人一向将这些信念,奉为信仰，信条,因为我们从小,就是这样受教育,也因为它们是由托马斯？杰斐逊,及其它著名权贵所写。

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