We'll do a little catalog of them: "Of Man's First Disobedience and the Fruit" - that was line one, of course.

我们来数一下：,“关于人类最初违反天神命令偷尝禁树的果子“,-这是第一句，当然。

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It's a ladder used to ascend a tree, it's a kind of tool of ascent that's a kind of a tool for getting fruit.

这是用来爬上树的梯子，是一种上升的工具,也是用来摘果子的。

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You remember they're wandering around the forest without her picking berries. The younger brother, - the second brother, is most concerned about his sister's safety -- so I want you to look at this passage.

你们记得他们在树林中游荡,没有拿他们采摘的果子，小哥哥，也就是二哥哥，是最关心他妹妹安全的-,所以我想让你们看这篇文章。

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But in fact the Hebrew literally reads, "She took of its fruit and ate and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate."

但如果，逐字逐句对照希伯来原文，是她摘了果子,吃了它，并把它给了“和她一起“的亚当“

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We don't find this out until we get to the next line, that the "fruit" at the end of the line is only a kind of temporary resting place.

直到下一句我们才发现“,这句末的“果子“只是暂时的停顿。

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The sense of the sentence pushes us on to the next line, which alters our view of the meaning of the word "fruit:": "Of Man's First Disobedience and the Fruit / of that Forbidden Tree."

句意迫使我们看下一句，看了这句我们对“果子“的理解也发生变化：,“关于人类最初违反天神命令偷尝禁树的果子“

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We know, of course, that Adam and Eve are going to eat the stupid fruit; but Milton is developing a style that works to resist our drive to get to the end of the story.

我们知道亚当夏娃会吃掉那愚蠢的果子;,但弥尔顿创造了一种体式,抗拒我们想要读到故事结局的冲动。

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Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never sere, I come to pluck your Berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

我再一次来，月桂树啊,棕色的番石榴和常青藤的绿叶啊，在成熟之前，来强摘你们的果子，我不得已伸出我这粗鲁的手指，来震落你们这些嫩黄的叶子。

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She also gave some to her husband and he ate."

并且把果子给了，他的丈夫“

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But now that means there is a serious danger here, and in Genesis 3:22, God says, "Now that man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil , what if he should stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever?"

但在那个时候，意味着，他们将面临很大的困难，《创世纪》第3章第22节，上帝说，现在那个人已经变得与我们相似，能知善恶,现在恐怕他又伸手摘生命树的果子,从此以后长生不老“

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Their berries are still harsh and crude.

它们的果子仍旧坚硬青涩。

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So let's look at an example of how this might actually happen, a way in which the verse actually seems to generate this sensation of bodily freedom. Just look at the first line of the poem: "Of Man's First Disobedience and the Fruit."

让我们来看一个具体例子，看看诗句是怎么样产生,躯体自由的快感的，整首诗的第一句：,“关于人类最初违反天神命令偷尝禁树的果子“

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