He said, almost to himself, "I shouldn't have done my research just in prisons."

几乎是自言自语，他说，“我不应该只在监狱里做我的研究。”

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The little King dragged himself to the bed and lay down upon it, almost exhausted with hunger and fatigue.

小国王拖着因饥饿和疲劳而筋疲力尽的身子，爬到床上躺了下来。

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So he stumped every working day for almost 25 years to build a name for himself.

所以25年来，每个工作日他都去做演说以建立自己的知名度。

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In making this point, Milton has just made us, I think, almost utterly unwilling to effect this justice that he himself has called for.

在这个论点中，我认为弥尔顿让我们，几乎完全不情愿地影响了这个审判,这个他说需要的审判。

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But it's almost as if Milton were tempted now to make himself go even further back, to write a humble ode that he could place at the feet of the Creator, the Creator at the moment of the actual creation of the entire universe.

但弥尔顿那时好像,要把自己放回比那还要早的年代，来写一篇谦逊的颂歌安放在造物主的脚下，那时的造物主实际就是创造天地万物的神。

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He almost never explains himself to other people.

他几乎从不向别人解释。

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Shortly before half-time England finally had their first sniff of the goal-line when Brown set up Sean O'Loughlin to burst clear, but the Wigan player looked almost surprised to find himself in a threatening position, and by the time he passed to Michael Shenton, New Zealand had got defenders back.

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So it puts the audience in the position of a kind of big brother or a doctor, observing this man almost trying to purge himself by ritually going through the story of Macbeth.

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Ignorant of the burden of expectation placed upon him, Stefan allows, indeed almost wills, himself to be trapped into reading out loud before a gathering of his mother's intellectual friends some poetry that he claims to have written himself.

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