All of Milton's labors in the cause of liberating England from the tyranny of monarchy had in some way - could be construed as having been useless.

弥尔顿为把英国从君主暴政解放出来,所做的努力在某种程度上,可以说是付之东流了。

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I think Milton is encouraging us in these similes to question, really to wrestle with, the theological certainties that the rest of the poem labors to establish.

我想弥尔顿是通过这些比喻来激励我们提出疑问，更多的也在和神学上的确定性相互角力,这是剩下的部分着重要表达的。

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You are no good, inclined to drunkenness and routs and final disgraceful robbery of the fruits of my 'umble labors in the haberdashery.

你太糟糕了，常常喝得烂醉，跌跌撞撞地回来,把我辛辛苦苦挣来的东西抢走。

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So on the seventh day, God rested from his labors And for this reason he blessed the seventh day and declared it "holy."

在第七天，上帝从劳作中歇息,为此他赐福于第七天，称它为“神圣的“

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Hobbes wrote, "I am at the point of believing that my labors will be " as useless as the commonwealth of Plato."

贺伯斯写到，“我在此要相信,我的努力将如同,柏拉图的国家一样不具实用“

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As the Lady labors to preserve her virginity, she conjures a menacing but nonetheless sensual image of "airy tongues that syllable men's names."

因为小姐努力地保持她的童贞，她联想到了一个威胁的但感官的画面,飘忽的声音在叫男人的名字“

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Nothing is said of Moses' childhood, But we learn of his awareness of his Israelite identity, or his identification with the Hebrews, in the following passage: this is in Exodus 2:11-15: Some time after that, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his kinsfolk and witnessed their labors.

丝毫没有提到摩西的童年，但是我们却知道他意识到自己以色列人的身份，或者是他与希伯来人的身份关联，在接下来的《出埃及记》第2章11到15节中：,在那之后，摩西长大了，他出去看到了他的同族和他们的劳作。

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One of the labors of reading Paradise Lost is the reader's obligation to supply the analog for the X, and this poem is filled with such X's.

读的一个麻烦就是,读者需要自行类比出X究竟是什么，偏偏诗中又充满了这种不确定物。

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