We have already encountered on some level the importance of the figure of eating to John Milton. Think of Comus.

我们已经在某种程度上见识到了,对于弥尔顿来说吃的形象的重要性，想想司酒宴之神。

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I mean, the Greeks didn't -- Plato's Symposium, all of these guys are sitting around having a drinking party.

我是说,希腊人不这样 --,在柏拉图的飨宴上,人们坐在那里举行酒宴

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The lady's refusal to drink of Comus' cup was just the first of Milton's attempts to bring the action of ingestion to the very center of a literary work.

拒绝司酒宴之神的杯子的女士,是弥尔顿第一次尝试把摄取食物的行动,注入到文学作品的中心去。

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The Lady, the Lady in Milton's mask, was stuck to her seat in the presence of the Shakespearian magician Comus, and Milton himself had claimed in the poem "On Shakespeare" that Shakespeare "dost make us Marble with too much conceiving."

这位戴着弥尔顿面具的女士，被卡在了莎士比亚塑造的酒宴之神,所处的位置上，弥尔顿在诗歌“论莎士比亚“中声称“,莎士比亚用太多设想出的东西是我们麻痹“

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