It's here that Milton for no explicit, or no apparent, reason at all - it's here that he provides a little theoretical digression on the stunning flexibility of angelic bodies.

但在这他无缘无故的，没有任何明显原因的,-在这儿他脱离了诗歌主线,转而去描写天使身体惊人的灵活性。

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It goes off in this strange digression. It seems like his mind has simply wandered, as it does, from one version of the story to another. But the mention of the machines is not incidental.

这故事就这么奇怪地离题说着，好像他的思想,在游离，从故事的一方面跳到,另一方面，但是提到机器并不是偶然。

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Okay, too long of a digression.

呵呵，我们扯得有点远了。

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It's a little bit of a digression, but one of the things that I've witnessed over the past twenty years is that the leakage of the -the leakage from the system in terms of the returns that go to the owners of capital -leakage has increased enormously.

讲一点稍稍离题的内容,我发现,过去的二十年中,这种损耗,这种减损资本所有者收益所得的,系统性损耗,有相当巨大的增长

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