Even when he was a young boy Milton's Latin seems to have been impeccable, and he was quickly establishing himself as one of the best Latinists in the country.

当还是年轻孩子的时候，他的拉丁文看上去就已经毫无瑕疵了，而且他很快就证明了自己,是这个国家最好的拉丁语言学者之一。

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Let's choose Latin, the language of scholarship, and so iron became Fe for ferrum and lead became Pb for plumbum and gold is Au for aurum and so on.

那就选拉丁文吧，用于学术的语言，所以，iron就变成了Fe，表示铁元素,铅变成了，Pb，表示铅元素,金变成了Au，表示金元素，等等。

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