The nymphs, of course, are powerless, and worse than that, the nymphs, as we know and of course as John Milton knew, are merely fictions. This is all made up.

海洋女神当然无能为力，更糟糕的是，海洋女神，我们都知道，弥尔顿也知道，只是虚构的，这都是虚构的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And as in all of these early lyrics, Jove conventionally throughout the Renaissance is used as a name within these classical fictions to signify the Christian God.

在早期的抒情诗里，贯穿文艺复兴的始终,丘比特在传统意义上意在，在众多的古典神话中,使上帝意象化，符号化。

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And just as there are innumerable human activities which require undistorted references if they are to be satisfied, so there are innumerable other human activities not less important which equally require distorted references or, more plainly, fictions.

就像无数的人类活动,需要真实的证据,如果要达到令人满意的效果，无数同等重要的,人类活动,也同样需要失真的参考,说得更明白点，就是需要虚构。

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I've never taken a course of philosophy So I'm looking for it and I guess it struk me because I've never learned an art class here so much and I like the elements, images, and fictions of alienation. -OK, I missed a few words.

我没有上过哲学课,所以就选了这门课,在这里我没怎么学过,艺术课程,我也喜欢异化的元素，图像，和，小说,等等，我没听见你说的。

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