The people seem so empty of joy that when she touched their cold fingers it is as if she were shaking hands with a storm.

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But there's an important and, I think, a very real sense in which Milton wanted to make it seem as if the Nativity Ode were the first poem that he had written.

但我有种非常强烈的感觉,弥尔顿好像还是想让人觉得,《圣诞清晨歌》才是他的第一首诗。

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There's also an important and, I think, a very real sense in which Milton wanted to make it seem and obviously this is a much more difficult feat wanted to make it seem as if the Nativity Ode were the first poem that anyone had written.

我还有一种强烈的感觉,弥尔顿想让人觉得,显然这很困难,想使《圣诞清晨歌》看上去像,任何一个人写的第一首诗。

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If you start listing all the things worth having in life, it might seem as though you couldn't possibly come to any general organizing principles.

假设你开始列出人生中值得拥有的东西，你似乎不可能,总结出一个概括性的组织准则。

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In fact for readers of Paradise Lost, and this has been an experience now for a few hundred years, it does often seem as if there were some mysterious life force, a pulsating through Milton's dense and driving lines of unrhymed, iambic pentameter.

实际上，《失乐园》的读者们，几百年来一直都有这种体验，确实，似乎真有一种神秘的生命力，一种脉搏，贯穿在弥尔顿密集，强劲，没有韵律，长短不一的五音步格诗之中。

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So that when you are hooked up to the machine, it seems to you exactly the same on the inside as it would seem to you if you really were-- and now fill in the blank.

当你被连接到机器上时，你的内心感受,看似就是你真正的体验-,哪一种体验都可以。

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