Hartman describes Milton's tendency in Paradise Lost, and he takes this term from Coleridge: the tendency to stand ab extra, to stand from outside.

哈特曼描述了弥尔顿在中的写作趋向，并且从柯勒律治那里借用了这个习语：,由外而内俯视自身的趋势。

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Hartman associates this image of Milton's standing ab extra with the figures in so many of those similes who seem also to be standing ab extra.

哈特曼把弥尔顿从外俯视的形象,和他众多的明喻中似乎也置身局外的形象,相联系进行思考。

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And then Zeus, Athena and especially Aphrodite, looking down on him, took mercy and brought the statue to life.

宙斯，雅典娜，特别是阿芙罗狄蒂，俯视他，深感同情，于是把雕像变活。

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Actually you can look down as well as an added precaution.

事实上你们可以俯视,作为一个预防措施。

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For example, if a car is going on a racetrack and you're seeing it from the top, if the speedometer says 60 miles per hour, you might say it's not accelerating.

例如,如果一辆车在跑道上行驶,你从上面俯视它,如果速率表显示的是60英里每小时,你也许会说它没有在加速

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And this has this religious sense to it.

这不仅仅是俯视San，Narciso的那个宗教瞬间。

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Milton's looking in at his own work from a distance, according to Coleridge and then Hartman.

据柯勒律治和哈特曼所言，弥尔顿是遥远地从外俯视自己的作品。

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