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。

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Even if quantum mechanics was wrong and somehow, you know, at the macro level all the indeterminism boils out-- whatever-- and at the macro level we are deterministic systems, so what?

即便量子力学是错的,而且不知怎的,在宏观水平上,所有的非决定性都蒸发了,不管发生了什么,在宏观水平上我们都成了决定论的系统,那又如何

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There's a benefit to me above and beyond the question of what's going on within my life-- am I loved, am I accomplishing things, ? am I having nice experiences or not?

不管我的生活里发生了什么事,我都能得到好处-,不管我是否被爱，是否有成就，或者我的经历是否愉快？

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