To leave home and to establish a new city for themselves someplace else is not to be taken for granted.

我们不能理所当然地认为,这是为了建立一个新的城市

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I think it stands to reason to assume that this figure of Galileo is of some importance to Milton and the workings of the poem.

我认为理所当然应当假设,伽利略的形象对弥尔顿和诗歌的作用而言,有着无以言表的重要性。

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He takes it for granted that he is the most rational and systematic of all thinkers and raises questions about since we all take ourselves to be rational too raises questions about just how we know ourselves not to be paranoid delusives like Don Quixote.

他理所当然地认为,自己是所有思想者中最理性，最有条理的,他提出,既然我们也认为自己很理性,我们如何证明自己,不像堂吉诃德一样处于妄想之中呢？

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