So we have to assume that the occasion for this poem is some kind of question posed by John Milton, Sr., a question like, "To what end am I supporting you, Son?

我们可以假定这个诗的起因是,老约翰弥尔顿问小弥尔顿，“我到底为什么要资助你，儿子？“

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Sometimes I ask myself why I'm mothering 80 students

有时我会问我自己，为什么要照顾80个学生，

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Then your boss came to you, and looks rather fiercely at you so this is Rick Levin or somebody looking rather fiercely at me, and says "why did you choose Up?"

你的老板找到你,很严肃的看着你,校长里克·列文或者别人,很严肃的看着我,问我为什么要选上

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What this does is it brings up this issue of why are you here, what do you hope to get out of this course?

所以我要问你们为什么来这，你们期望从这门课中学到什么？

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Still, all I can say is, why should we believe two?

然而我想问,为什么我们要相信前提二

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If you pay me ten thousand dollars a month to work for you, I'll work for you and I'll think "I'm doing it for ten thousand dollars a month, that makes a lot of sense," but if I do it for nothing then I have to ask myself, "Why am I doing it?"

如果你一个月给我一万美元帮你工作，我会为你工作，但我会想,”我是为了一万美元才做的，这样更合理“,但如果我一点报酬都没有，那我就会问我自己，”我为什么要做这份工作？”

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