他曾看到他毕生的劳动成果就在自己的眼前毁于一旦。

He had seen his life's work destroyed before his very eyes.

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艾米记得他曾惹自己生气。

Amy remembered the anger he had stirred in her.

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我曾希望能逃离自己的日常生活。

I had hopes of escaping my quotidian world.

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Milton has mastered his poetic touch, perhaps because Milton himself has been touched.

弥尔顿已经掌握了他的诗意触感，或许是因为他自己曾被触动过。

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In fact, if I recall correctly, Plato's mentioned as not being there on the day that Socrates dies.

实际上,如果我没记错的话,柏拉图曾提到,苏格拉底死时自己并不在场

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You remember that Milton had vowed to his friend Charles Diodati in the Sixth Elegy that he would become an epic poet some day, and that he was taking all of the necessary steps to transform himself into an epic poet.

弥尔顿曾在第六挽歌中向他的朋友查尔斯，迪奥达蒂宣布,他有一天将成为一名史诗诗人，他也在不断努力,把自己变为一名史诗诗人。

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