Now we know that Milton was blind probably well before the time he began writing Paradise Lost, and therefore, of course, he was then unable to read.

现在我们知道弥尔顿很可能失明了,这早于他开始写《失乐园》的时间，因此，他不能通过眼睛阅读。

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Now you'll remember from our discussion of the opening invocation to Paradise Lost, that insistent bid that Milton was making: the bid to be first.

现在从我们对失乐园开篇,的讨论中可以得知，弥尔顿一直坚持的是：,敢为天下先。

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In fact for readers of Paradise Lost, and this has been an experience now for a few hundred years, it does often seem as if there were some mysterious life force, a pulsating through Milton's dense and driving lines of unrhymed, iambic pentameter.

实际上，《失乐园》的读者们，几百年来一直都有这种体验，确实，似乎真有一种神秘的生命力，一种脉搏，贯穿在弥尔顿密集，强劲，没有韵律，长短不一的五音步格诗之中。

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It goes without saying that these are questions that it's impossible for us to try to answer certainly now, but Milton lets us know later in Paradise Lost that Satan was wrong to embark on his dangerous deconstruction of divine power.

毫无疑问，这些问题,我们现在无法给出确切回答，但弥尔顿后来在《失乐园》中告诉我们，撒旦,想要毁灭神权力量的危险行动是错误的。

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