It's fitting that the first poem of Milton's that we study in this class is "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity."

这节课我们首先学弥尔顿的,《圣诞清晨歌》是很合适的“

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The nativity of Christ, as you can imagine, was a popular subject for early seventeenth-century poets for pious early seventeenth-century poets.

基督诞生，你可以想象，对17世纪的诗人来说是很受欢迎的主题,特别是那些虔诚的17世纪的诗人。

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So, Christ is that one to whom the little children can come, and I think she cultivates that childlike sense in her self-presentation.

基督是个连小孩都能沟通的人，我认为奥康纳在她的,自我呈现中也营造了那种童稚感。

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Notice here how Yeats images what is at the core of Christ's birth.

注意这让叶芝是怎么描写,基督诞生的核心内容的。

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The painting is The Birth of Christ by Botticelli in the end of the 15th century.

这幅油画--《维纳斯的诞生》,是画家波特切利在15世纪作的。

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Hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, Homer described the fate of the companions of Odysseus who were transformed by a witch into pigs.

在公元前几百年,荷马这样描述奥德赛的几个同伴的命运,一个女巫将他们变成了猪

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You walk in the front door, Christ in majesty -on the left side are the damned writhing and on the right side are the blessed looking a good deal happier.

你走进大门口,威严的基督,左边是受诅咒之人在受煎熬,右侧是受保佑的人,看起来快乐得多

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And in his role here as a mute, as an infant, Christ is serving, I think, an important function for Milton.

作为一个哑巴，一个婴儿，基督对，弥尔顿起了很重要的作用。

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That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.

有些读者认为,对基督的信仰是关乎生死的大事,这对于那些对基督教,不以为然的人是一个障碍。

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With the scene of the flight of the pagan gods at the nativity of Christ Milton is also depicting a scenario that, I think, on some level he's hoping will occur within himself.

在《圣诞清晨歌》中有一个无宗教信仰的人逃跑的画面,我认为弥尔顿同时也在描绘一个剧情，某种程度上他希望这样的事情也会发生在自己身上。

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Milton wants to arrive in Bethlehem to hand Christ his poem before the wise men are able to bring their gold and their frankincense and their myrrh.

他想到达伯利恒把他的诗歌亲手交给基督,在术士们拿走他们的黄金,乳香精油和没药树之前。

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The elegiac tone of this final section of the poem should give us some clues to the type of victory over paganism that Christ's birth is actually heralding here.

诗歌最后一部分采用挽歌的口吻意在,告诉我们打败异教后的成功,预示着基督即将诞生。

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With the ascent of Christ, the lovely form of the virgin Truth is hewed into a thousand pieces and scattered to the four winds.

随着基督的上升，纯洁的真理的可爱形象,被劈成一千片然后扔进四阵风里。

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It's precisely at that moment that Christ's glorification begins.

这才是,上帝的荣耀所在。

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Christ, whose Nativity Milton is honoring, is still just a baby.

弥尔顿所尊敬的基督还只是个婴儿。

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For next time, make sure that you will have read at the very least Milton's great poem, and he wrote it when he was only twenty-one years old, "The Ode on Christ's Nativity."

下一讲，同学们至少要读完,弥尔顿的一首伟大诗作，他写这首诗时才21岁，《基督降生颂歌》

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