Nietzsche announced the death of God and Dostoyevsky's Grand Inquisitor asserted that when God is dead all things are permitted.

尼采说上帝死了,陀思妥耶夫斯基的宗教法庭审判官声称,当上帝死亡时一切事物都是允许的

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Let me remind you of that other intrusive moment in the poem, the moment when a figure whose presence we hadn't been aware of suddenly made -suddenly asserted himself.

我来提醒一下你们，诗里有另外一个被侵入的时刻，一个我们仍未可知的，突如其来的角色,突然出现的时刻,他毫无预兆的将自己安插进来。

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As excited -- as aroused -- as we might find ourselves by this imagining of Milton actually playing Comus, of course his performance in that role can't be asserted in any way definitively.

我们会发现自己很兴奋,当在我们想象弥尔顿真的在饰演Comus的时候，当然他演那个角色的表现,我们不能以任何方式来判断。

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