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

人们都认为这是米尔顿在他给迪奥·达蒂的信中编造的。

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This is the letter to Diodati which Milton publishes as the Sixth Elegy.

这封给迪奥达蒂的信米尔顿将其作为《六挽歌》进行了发表。

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He was at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva in 1816 when Byron challenged his guests to write a ghost story.

1816年，在日内瓦湖畔的迪奥·塔蒂别墅(Villa Diodati)中，拜伦提议他的客人们一人写一篇鬼故事。

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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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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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During one particularly eventful summer in 1816, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley and John Polidori rented the Villa Diodati manor in Cologny, near Lake Geneva.

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In 1987 she appeared as Mary Shelley in Gothic, Ken Russell's lurid take on the visit by the Shelley's and Lord Byron to the Villa Diodati which resulted in Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein.

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