Look now, and this is on the handout, at the letter that Milton had written to his friend, Charles Diodati.

现在看讲义上,弥尔顿写给朋友查尔斯·迪奥达蒂的信。

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It's not just that virgins are entitled to sing a heavenly song as Milton is saying Diodati is.

处子们获得的奖赏不仅仅是可以唱圣歌,如弥尔顿所说迪奥达蒂会唱的那样。

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When I was working in a place called Tulle, which is down here--t-u-l-l-e, not Tours, but Tulle-- I knew vaguely that there had been a massacre there in June sixth, 1944, and a lot of people had been hung.

我在一个叫蒂勒的地方工作的时候,在这里t-u-l-l-e,不是图尔是蒂勒,我大概记得,在1944年六月六号那里有个大屠杀,很多人被吊死了

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The letter to Diodati gives us another glimpse of the anticipatory narrative that Milton is sketching for his career.

在这封给迪奥达蒂的信里我们又一次看到,弥尔顿的预言性描述正拉开他事业的帷幕。

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He imagines Diodati just as he had imagined Edward King, enjoying at last his heavenly reward.

弥尔顿想象迪奥达蒂最终在天国获得奖赏，就像爱德华·金一样。

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So Milton implies to Diodati that he isn't yet up to the task of epic, but as he describes the Nativity Ode that he's just written, it's almost as if he considers it something of a mini-epic.

所以弥尔顿暗示迪奥达蒂自己还不能完成创作史诗的任务，但他提到了他刚写完的《圣诞清晨歌》,好像这就是一篇迷你史诗。

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By all accounts, Milton has just made this up in his letter to Diodati.

通过这些描述，弥尔顿给迪奥达蒂的信里说的这些都是编的。

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We will hear again of Milton's intention to write an epic in a versified letter that he writes to his best friend, Charles Diodati. This is the letter to Diodati which Milton publishes as the Sixth Elegy.

我们又一次听到弥尔顿想写史诗,是在他给最好的朋友查尔斯，迪奥达蒂的一封信里，这就是那封信,弥尔顿以第六挽歌的名字出版。

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But the unmistakable physicality of the heaven imagined in the poem about Diodati gives us some idea, I think, of how to read the end of Lycidas.

但在关于迪奥达蒂的这首诗中弥尔顿所想象的,天堂的物质性是无可置疑的，这能给我们一些启发，帮我们理解《利西达斯》的结尾。

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So Milton is explaining to Charles Diodati that if you're going to become an epic poet, you have to start acting like one.

弥尔顿在这里像查尔斯，迪奥达蒂解释到,如果你想成为一名史诗诗人，你必须开始像一个史诗诗人那样做。

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