And what he writes about is an extraordinary concept really: it's something called "the nobility of the poem".

他所写的是一个绝妙的理念,叫做，诗歌的高贵。

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Student: I guess it's because of the fact that he's doing something that's really not good, and it almost seems like he's trivializing it.

我想因为他想要做一些,不是很好的事情，他好像要使之平凡化。

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How can Milton know that he was really and truly called by God to be a great poet until he writes something - it's not a bad question - until he has something actually to show for his talent?

弥尔顿怎么知道他是不是真的被,上帝选中了去做一个伟大的诗人,除非他真的创作出点儿什么--这是一个不坏的问题,-直到他真有可以证明自己才能的作品？

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He's somebody recounting something really ugly and scary that happened, and of course, he signifying when he's doing it and he's talking about he used to eat ribs with this dude, he's telling you about the level of intimacy he had with his neighbor.

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If things get bad enough for Obama, maybe he'll do something really crazy like follow Beinart's advice.

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