Isaiah in this passage is describing a crucial moment in his career, his career as a prophet: the moment in which his lips are cleansed and he is empowered -- divinely empowered -- to speak prophetically.

在这一段里艾赛亚描述了一个他事业上至关重要的时刻，作为一个预言家：在这个时刻他的嘴唇被清洁干净,他被神圣得授权来预言。

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Machiavelli compares the prince to a prophet.

马奇亚维利将君王比作先知。

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That's -- no sweat with that one! Milton wants to be a divine prophet like one of the great Hebrew poets of the Old Testament.

他--不要冒汗！，他想做《旧约》中,伟大的希伯来诗人那样的有神性的先知。

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Their yell at the top of the world seems to Sal something that calls for a replacement; it calls for some other prophet to come walking ragged towards them and make them fall silent with his word.

他们在世界之巅的叫喊对Sal来说,似乎是在要求一个代替者;,需要另一个先知衣衫褴褛地朝他们走来,用他的话让他们安静。

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What is a prophet?

先知为何？

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Perhaps we want to write like Shakespeare, maybe we want to be a writer like the great Old Testament prophet Isaiah. But the last thing we should be burdened with, Milton's suggesting here, is the fear of being late.

也许我们想向莎士比亚一样，也许想成为,伟大的旧约先知以赛亚,但弥尔顿说我们最不应该被，担心迟到所困。

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You know that Milton had been entertaining this fantasy of becoming a great biblical prophet like Isaiah as early as the Nativity Ode.

大家都知道,弥尔顿早在里就玩弄过这种,假装成恪守的先知的把戏。

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Machiavelli's armed prophet is more than just a gangster, like Orson Welles in that part.

马奇亚维利的武装先知,不只是一位歹徒，一如，Orson，Welles，之属。

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