Now in these two books we've seen Milton dig up and discard just about the entire tradition of epic poetry.

现在在我们看到的两册书中弥尔顿,挖出并丢弃了所有史诗的传统。

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Look again at the sentence that I just read, the last lines: Soon had his crew Op'nd into the Hill a spacious wound And dig'd out ribs of Gold."

再看一下我刚刚读过的句子，在最后几行：,不久，他带去的人马,凿开了那座山，画出一条很大的伤口,挖出黄金的肋条“

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And we go and we dig up in France and there is the saber,right?

然后我们就去法国，真的挖出了剑？

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Out of the wound are dug "ribs of gold." The image that seems initially negative begins to resemble something, I think, quite important and quite beautiful. I'm thinking here of the creation of Eve.

从伤口处挖出了黄金的肋骨，这景象,首先带给人以负面的遐想，我认为这是十分重要的,及十分美丽的，这让我想到了夏娃的诞生。

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Milton has dug up a gem from the pages of The Iliad, and this gem has something like a Medusa effect on the poem or perhaps on us as readers. Time almost seems to stop when we begin appreciating this image solely on aesthetic grounds.

弥尔顿从《伊利亚特》中挖出了一块瑰宝，这块瑰宝对于诗或我们读者起得作用,如同美杜莎一样，在我们只欣赏着,精美绝伦的地面上的场景时，时间仿佛停止。

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