There's every indication that Milton believed, as I had mentioned before, at an unconscionably early age, that poetry was his vocation.

就像我之前说过的，有很多的迹象表明，弥尔顿在很早之前就相信诗人就是他的天职。

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At a very early age, Milton brooded on his poetic vocation as if it were an actual calling from God.

在很早的时候，弥尔顿就在沉思他的诗歌事业,就像是来自上帝真实的召唤。

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This was a doctrine that Hobbes attributes to many of the teaching, much of the teaching at the universities of his age.

这就是霍布斯在他的教导中,在他大学里的教学中，经常出现的思想。

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He ended up at City University of New York, became a full professor at age thirty three, died in his early '50s, did not lead a good life but had extraordinary discoveries.

最后他去了纽约市立大学，在33岁时成为正教授，50来岁时去世，生活过得不是很好,但有很重大的发现。

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It wasn't until 1645 at the age of thirty-six or thirty-seven that Milton would publish his first volume of poems, which he titled simply Poems.

直到1645年他36或37时,弥尔顿才出版了第一部诗集，就叫《弥尔顿十四行诗集》

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Remember the letter ? that Plato wrote near the end of his life, when he compares the democracy to a golden age, at least in comparison to what went after.

记得柏拉图,在临死前所写的书信吗，当他把民主与黄金时期相比时，至少是与那之后的时期相比时。

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