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我和我妻子在大學里有一位杰出的米爾頓學者,他在開課時承認,大多數人認為莎士比亞、彌爾頓和喬叟是英語中最偉大的作家.在課程結束時,他說他希望我們可以把米爾頓看作三人中最偉大的一位.而且,在《失樂園》的結尾,我們被說服了
My wife and I had an outstanding Milton scholar as a professor in college. He started out the course by acknowledging that most people consider Shakespeare, Milton and Chaucer as the greatest writers in the English language. By the end of the course, he said he hoped we might consider Milton THE greatest of the three. And, by the end of Paradise Lost, we were convinced.
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唯一可以與但丁齊名的英國詩人。作為一個純粹的詩人(莎士比亞除外),即使他在盲人和監獄里沒有寫過《失樂園》,也應該是第一位的。完全不把他列在名單上就無效了
The only English poet who can be mentioned in the same breath with Dante. As a pure poet (excluding Shakespeare ) should probably be first even if he hadn't written Paradise Lost while blind and in prison. To not list him at all invalidates list.
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《失樂園》是英語中最重要的一首詩,彌爾頓(甚至比莎士比亞還多)確立了現代社會中一個嚴肅的詩人意味著什么
Paradise Lost is the single, most essential poem in the English language. Milton (more than Shakespeare, even) establishes the very idea of what it means to be a serious poet in the modern world.
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彌爾頓不僅在英國文學上,而且在自古以來的世界文學中都是無與倫比的。彌爾頓已經超越了荷馬、維吉爾、奧維德和其他許多人類曾經遇到過的詩人。彌爾頓的名字在世界上最偉大的學者心中回響,而莎士比亞的名字在公眾和學者的腦海中回響
Milton is unrivalled not only in English literature, but also in the world literature from time immemorial. Milton hath surpassed Homer, Virgil, Ovid and many other poets whom mankind ever came across. Milton's name rings in the mind of greatest scholars of the world, while Shakespeare's of general public and also scholars.
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繼莎士比亞之后最偉大的英國詩人無疑是彌爾頓,《失樂園》就說明了一切
The greatest English poet after Shakespeare is Milton for sure. Paradise Lost says it all.
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應該是第二名
Should be number two.
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意念是它自己的地方,它本身可以創造地獄的天堂,天堂的地獄
?"The mind is its own place,
And in itself can make a heaven of hell,
A hell of heaven. "
John Milton, Paradise Lost
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