瞭望那海潮尽着牧师的职责，用圣水给世人居住的海岸沐浴。

The moving waters at their priestlike task of pure ablution round earth's human shores.

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牧师职位牧师的职责或者职位；

The duties or office of a vicar; a vicariate.

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牧师的职责是双重的：公众讲道和个人感化。

The office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence.

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So in this guise with the mask of Saint Peter on he's -- Milton's -able to be both poet and minister.

因此在圣彼得的面具掩盖下,弥尔顿能够身兼诗人和牧师的双重职责。

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He's accomplished his ministerial duty as a zealous and a politically oriented poet, and now he's earned the right to dally with false surmise.

他已经完成了牧师的职责,作为一名狂热的追逐政治的诗人，现在他已经得到了游荡在虚伪臆想之中的能力。

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