今年迄今的「圣婴现象」影响虽还不严重，但已不容小觑。

The impact of this year’s El Niño has so far been less severe, but bad enough.

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对某些人来说，他仍然象征着马槽里圣婴的诞生，并让我们想起庆祝圣诞节的缘由。

And for some, he still points to the Nativity of the babe in the manger, and reminds us of the reason we celebrate Christmas.

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好吧，他就像一个“魔鬼圣婴(Rosemary's Baby)”的低风险版本。”

It was like a low-stakes version of "Rosemary's Baby."

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We might be able to understand some of the weird, anxious energy behind this stanza if we think of the phrase that Milton uses here: the phrase "Infant God."

如果我们想一下这些句子，也许能够明白，这一段中古怪和焦急的心情,弥尔顿在这用到“圣婴“这个词语“

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Milton clearly wants us to know that this Nativity Ode was written by a young Londoner in 1629, but it's a poem that is at the same time deliverable to the infant Christ by some extraordinary violation, of course, of all of the established laws of temporal sequence.

显然弥尔顿想让我们了解这首《圣诞清晨歌》,是在1629由一位伦敦年轻人写的，但是它同时也是一首,通过非同寻常的方法能够交到圣婴手里的诗，当然这就需要他违反现有的一系列法律。

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with thy humble ode," he's also saying that the wise men should be prevented from making it to the manger at all, that somehow the wise men need to be headed off at the pass and precluded from presenting any gifts to the Infant God that may compete with the so-called humble ode of John Milton.

要尽先把你们卑微的歌辞献上“,他同时也在说应该阻止那些术士们,不让他们到达马槽那里，不管用什么方式，都要在途中阻拦住那些术士们,不让他们把与弥尔顿所谓的谦逊的颂歌,相竞争的礼物,放在圣婴的脚下。

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