You should be bringing some of the things we talked about when discussing his work, into dialogue with and in conflict with some of the evidence you'll be finding in the text itself.

我们需要回想以前讨论,在上帝与别人的对话中,你可以发现前后矛盾的地方。

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Clearly, this is something that he wants to believe or that he needs to believe, but there does seem to be evidence that at least at this early point in Milton's life he's intending to remain sexually abstinent forever.

很显然，这些都是他想去相信的,或者他需要相信的，但好像有证据证明至少有一点很清楚,弥尔顿一生都想做一个禁欲者。

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To suggest that that couldn't be relevant evidence is like saying I can't tell you anything interesting about what's going on in the hallway right now, because after all I'm not in the hallway; I'm here in the lecture hall.

要说这些都是不相干的经验,就好比说我现在不能告诉你,走廊上发生了什么,毕竟我不在走廊上,我在教室里面

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He's claiming only that it is available and can be adduced from what we call "evidence" in the same way that the symbolic interpretation, based on the rhetorical question, is available and can be adduced from evidence -and that these two viewpoints are irreducible.

他只是声称这是一种可能，而且可以从,我们所说的“证据“之中引证得到,同样的，基于修辞型问句之上的象征性诠释，也是一种可能，也能够引证,而且，这两种观点是不可削减的。

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