And it's precisely a silencing of classical literature that Milton is attempting to effect here.

准确的说那是古典文学中缄默的一部分,弥尔顿在这想让人们注意它。

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So it is very hard to understand P's silence in this regard, if it stems entirely from the post-exilic, priestly circles.

很难理解P资源在这一方面的缄默，如果它来源于流放后时期，牧师圈子。

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Milton is narrating or representing the process by which they are silenced. They're rendered speechless or dumb, and the poem effects this process in order to give someone else an opportunity to speak.

弥尔顿在叙述或描绘这个,他们缄默的过程，他们都变得沉默或哑巴了，同时诗歌也影响了这个过程,为了使另外某个人有机会开口说话。

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At the same time, you might think his reticence, his reluctance to speak in his own voice may have also been a response to the fate of Socrates and politically endangered situation of philosophy.

同时，你也可以将他的缄默，与不发言的冷淡,可能也是,对苏格拉底的遭遇,及哲学在政治上危险处境的响应。

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