The passage is also famous because in it Milton does something that he almost never does. Milton has made a mistake.

这篇文章有名也是因为弥尔顿做了一些,他几乎从未做过的事，弥尔顿犯了一个错误。

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Mr Spielberg never made that mistake: his dinosaurs were monsters menacing the puny humans.

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He never made that mistake again, to start with a vision.

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But Jobs never made the mistake of exceeding his span.

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