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VOA: standard.2010.03.08

The portrait of humans that emerges is that Humans are unimportant menials. They are the slaves of the gods, The gods have little reciprocal interest in or concern for them, And they create human beings to do the work of running the world.

接着便出现了对于人类的描绘,人类是卑微的仆人，他们是上帝的奴隶，上帝与他们没有共同利益，也并不关心他们，他们创造了人类是为了让他们接下治世的苦活。

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I don't think that the critics who see here an image of castration are just imagining it, because there is such a weird and such a persistent interest in the human body, and especially in the poet's body, throughout this poem - Milton's focus on the body, on the entire realm of the corporeal.

有评论家认为弥尔顿在这里是暗喻阉割不是,凭空想象出来的，因为贯穿《利西达斯》整首诗,都有一种奇怪的一直都存在的对于人体，尤其是对这诗人的身体的兴趣,-弥尔顿对人体，对整个物质世界的关注。

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