Not even the muse Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, was in a position to avert a human tragedy like this.

即使是缪斯之一克莱俄帕，掌管史诗的女神，也不能避免这样一场人间悲剧。

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The next day there was still no ship in sight so Dudley told Brooks to avert his gaze and he motioned to Stevens that the boy, Parker, had better be killed.

又过了一天，依然没有船只的影子,于是达德利叫布鲁克斯转过头去,并示意斯蒂芬斯，最好杀掉派克。

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The romance heroine is often threatened with rape, but by her cleverness or by good luck or a concatenation of forces ; she can always invariably avert that tragedy; and by the end of the work she can present herself to her future husband as a virgin.

这位传奇的女英雄总是被强奸所威胁，但是多亏了她的机敏，或是走好运，或是一连串的军队暴力,她总是能避免悲剧;,在作品的最终,她呈现在未来丈夫面前的仍是一个处女。

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The first, which one finds among manymodern-day commentators, many kind of neo-Aristotelians, we might call them, is to simply avert our eyes from the harsh, unappealing aspects of Aristotle's thought and proceed as if he never actually said or meant such things.

第一种是,你在今天随处可见的评论者，多种的新亚里士多德派学者，我们可以这么称呼他们，他们就只是转移我们的目光，不去看亚里士多德想法中刺眼，不讨喜的观点,单纯地以为,他好像从未说过或意指这档事。

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