Although they will be engaged in P-functioning later on, it's not true right now that they can engage in P-functioning.

虽然他们后来能够有人格功能性，但是现在却没有。

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It's possible that he's hiding his talent or burying his conceived merits deep within the earth, and it's this frightening possibility that Milton forces himself to engage head on - the implications of this parable.

他不可能总藏着他的才能,或者把他即将成形的文章埋在地下，就是这种可怕的可能性,使弥尔顿敦促自己注意,这则寓言的暗示。

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That seems to me to be some horrible penalty you've imposed on me, that you've reduced me from being a human being, able to engage in the full range of reflection, and simply turned me into something like a rat.

更像是,强加在我身上的酷刑，我本来是一个人，能进行各种反思，却被变成一种老鼠般的生物。

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