He is more steeped in the sensuous beauty of classical literature, the classical tradition, than probably anyone else of his generation.

他比同时代的任何人都沉湎于古典文学感觉上的美，一种经典的传统的美。

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Sure. So, I went to the University of Toronto where I studied English Literature and Classical Civilizations.

当然可以。我在多伦多大学上学，在那儿我学习英国文学和古典文化。

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This is one of the primary strategies that Milton develops, especially in the first two books of Paradise Lost, as a kind of defense against his dependence on classical literature.

这是弥尔顿发展出的早期策略之一，尤其是在《失乐园》的前两册书中,这似乎是在反驳他对古典文学的依赖。

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As you know, in classical literature the dead are referred to as shades, but here in Milton's simile "shades" merely means "shade trees."

在古典文学里，逝者常被用树荫来指代，而在这里弥尔顿的比喻“树荫“仅表示“叶绿成荫的树“

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Here though, Milton is talking about the temptation of reading classical literature.

虽然弥尔顿在这里谈论的是,对于阅读古典文学的诱惑。

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She's a daughter of Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, and she represents that force that prevents Milton from forgetting all of the pagan and all of the classical literature that, of course, he had spent so much of his life reading.

她是记忆女神摩涅莫辛涅的女儿，她代表着力量,这种力量阻止着弥尔顿忘记所有的异教神,以及所有的古典文学，当然，那些文学他已经花了大半辈子阅读了。

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He will have to do battle with this temptation forever: the temptation offered by classical literature.

他将不得不永远与这种：,来自古典文学的诱惑战斗。

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And it's precisely a silencing of classical literature that Milton is attempting to effect here.

准确的说那是古典文学中缄默的一部分,弥尔顿在这想让人们注意它。

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But the parting genius is also a part of Milton's own genius, his literary genius, that aspect of his literary career and his literary expertise that has been nourished and fed, lovingly fed, by classical literature.

但这些逝去的天赋也是弥尔顿的天赋的一部分，还有他的文学事业方面的天赋,和被古典文学，深深滋养的才能。

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