And Milton's defense of controversy seems in a lot of ways continually to be slipping in to something like a defense of poetry, or certainly a defense of his own poetic practice.

弥尔顿对于论战的辩护似乎在某种程度上持续地,渐渐变为对诗歌的辩护，或是理所当然地变为对自己诗歌的尝试的辩护。

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I'm afraid that you're slipping.

恐怕你的工作表现在滑落。

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