In the old days, it took a long time to count the votes from the November elections.

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And, at one point in time, he laments the end of the old Latin world and the B.C. world, when people could have these child slaves.

在某一时刻，他为拉丁时代和公元前时代的结束而哀悼，那时人们可以拥有小孩做奴隶。

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It's just this double bind of vocation that's the subject of Sonnet VII, "How soon hath Time." That's the sonnet in which Milton laments the fact that he has turned twenty-three years old and has yet produced nothing that would indicate a shining poetic future.

第七篇十四行诗的主题就是这种职业窘境，“时间过得多快啊，“弥尔顿在这首诗里表达了,对自己都快23岁却没创作出什么,可以显示出他卓越天赋的诗的哀伤。

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The same thing happens in the 1870s, there's a revival of that old time religion, and it's helped by various miracles and that kind of thing, but which I'll talk about in the lecture on religion, which is kind of fun--it's fun to do.

十九世纪七十年代发生了同样的事情,那时候旧时代的宗教复兴了,而它得益于许多神迹之类的,但那是我在宗教讲座上要讨论的东西,那会很有趣的

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