In order to form an idea of this struggle, it is necessary to imagine fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the conflagration.

要对这次战斗有个概念，我们可以想象在一堆可怕的勇士身上点起火来，再来观看这场火灾。

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An electronic reading supplies me with a list of the frequencies, which I have only to glance at to form an idea of the problems the book suggests to my critical study.

电子阅读给我的感觉就像是一个频率的列表，我只要瞥一眼这个列表，就能知道这本书对我的研究可能会有怎样的帮助。

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The general idea is to provide data and processing services in the form of a generic Web-enabled service, such that an interested user can locate, bind, and access the service of interest.

其一般思想是以支持 Web 的通用服务的形式提供数据和处理服务，以便相关用户能够定位、绑定和访问相关服务。

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Finally, Milton's poem is late by virtue of the simple fact that it's written in the form of an epic. An epic might have seemed like a great idea when Milton was nineteen, but by the time Milton gets actually around to writing it, it's an entirely superannuated, utterly outdated form.

最后，弥尔顿这么晚才写这首诗是因为,这是一首史诗，在弥尔顿19岁的时候,写首史诗看起来可能是个好主意，但到了弥尔顿真正要写的时候，史诗已经是一种完全落伍过时的诗体了。

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