This is a simile that Stanley Fish brilliantly describes ; as central to a certain temporal procedure common in Milton's verse; Fish is interested in the temporal process of reading in general.

这被斯坦利费什独具匠心地形容为,弥尔顿诗中极为常见的时间步骤的核心;,费什对总体上这首诗的时间顺序非常感兴趣。

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In my in my area of research, it's common for us to want to process about 100 images a second in order to get real time display. Each image has about a million elements in it. I 've got to process about a half a gig of data a second in order to get anything out of it.

在我们的研究领域内，我们经常要在一秒钟内处理大概,100张图片以获得实时显示,每个图片大概包括了100万像素,因此我必须在1秒内,处理半个G的数据,来获取我想要的。

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